[NTLUG:Discuss] ProFTPD frustrations

[Victor Brilon]

There's no way for your ftp daemon to do this without hacking the
source. Why not just write a simple daemon (in perl/shell/whatever) that
checks the upload dir every so often and fixes the permission when it
sees new files?

Victor

On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 11:39:29PM -0600, TJ Bell wrote:
> Eric Schnoebelen wrote:
> > 
> >         You're not going to get the ftp server to open the file
> > for writing _and_ execute permissions.  ftpd's generally open
> > files for read/write.
> > 
> >         If you want a file to be executable after you've
> > uploaded it, you'll need to do a site specific command.
> > Generally, ``SITE CHMOD <args> <filename>'' will do what you
> > request.. (of course, any and all of the SITE extentions may be
> > disabled in a given ftp server..)
> 
> There's got to be some way of doing it.  Before putting these files on
> this linux box, we were uploading them to Webjump via FTP and it did all
> of that for us.  Basically what I need is for the user (webmaster) to be
> able to FTP into the system, upload the files, and the site is updated. 
> But unless the files are +x for the world, they won't be visible to web
> surfers.
> 
> I'm the guy in the "Anti-DVD CCA" shirt and Copyleft hat tomorrow if
> anyone has ideas!!  ;-)
> 
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Victor Brilon
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