[cobalt-users] FTP problem, was working fine but now.....

["jim st john" <jim@xxxxxxxx>]

All of a sudden Dreamweaver is unable to FTP files to my web sites
hosted on a raq4i.

One operation that fails consistently is attempting to create a
directory in /home/sites//siteN/web, which Dreamweaver does in order to
read back the time-stamp.

I am able to duplicate this by connecting to FTP as admin, then cd to
/home/sites/site1/web, then-
Try to create a dir (in web), it fails:
ftp> mkdir test
550 test: permission denied

Doing the same command sequence using SSH works fine, so it is
apparently an FTP configuration issue.  

I found some references in the archives that pointed me to the
proftpd.conf file, but I didn't find an answer to this specific issue.

This problem first appeared today after I added a few new virtual sites,
but they were all essentially clones of the same basic site
configuration that I have always used.

What I can't figure out is what caused this problem, and how to get it
back working.  This is my proftpd.conf (less comments):
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ServerName                      "ProFTPD"
ServerType                      inetd
DeferWelcome                    off
DefaultServer                   on
DefaultRoot                     / admin
DefaultRoot                     ~/../.. site-adm
DefaultRoot                     ~ !site-adm

Port                            21
Umask                           002
User                            nobody
Group                           nobody

<Directory />
  AllowOverwrite                on
</Directory>

 <Global>
   AllowChmod                    on
   # Report localtime, not GMT
   TimesGMT                     off
 </Global>

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.20>
        DefaultRoot             / admin
        DefaultRoot             ~/../.. site-adm
        DefaultRoot             ~ !site-adm
        AllowOverwrite          on
        DisplayLogin            .ftphelp
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 192.168.254.100>
        DefaultRoot             / admin
        DefaultRoot             ~/../.. site-adm
        DefaultRoot             ~ !site-adm
        AllowOverwrite          on
        DisplayLogin            .ftphelp
</VirtualHost>
[root /etc]#

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Any help will be much appreciated.

-jim-