[ale] Help with chmod

[kaboom at gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Rick Huebner wrote:

> I've been trying to setup a directory /var/www/html/foodir so that any new
> files created(usually by ftp) have 774 permissions.  I set the owner to foo
> and the group to foogroup.  When foo ftp's a file into foodir, it ends up
> 644.  I set umask for foo to 003 and chmod -R g+s foodir to no avail.  I'm
> missing something here and can't find it....sigh

You have to configure that in your ftp server -- most let you control the 
permissions and ownership w/ which files are created

later,
chris