RE: [cobalt-users] OT: FTP from Command line

["William J.A. Brillinger" <billy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:21 PM 19/11/03 -0600, you wrote:
> What commands work is not only dependent upon the ftp client. It can also 
> be specific to the FTP server. I.e. Microsoft's FTP server works different 
> from Mac's FTP server, etc. Even the different open source server may 
> implement the FTP standard differently.
> I don't know what ftp server you are attempting to connect to, but you may 
> be able to get the result you want by setting the 'umask' option in the 
> configuration file for the server.
> This specifies what permissions a file has by default when you upload it.
> With proftpd you can even specify different umask for different directories.
> I believe you would want umask 077 to prevent all permissions for group 
> and the world.
>
> HTH,
> Vidar

I'm going from a RaQ4 to a RaQ4.

The command: "chmod 600 thefilename" works fine. The problem is the 
'recursive' aspect. It doesn't like the -R or the wildcard.

I have solved the problem for now by 'cdup' and then chmod'ing dir after 
the transfer. I was hoping to assign the permissions to the files in the 
dir instead of the dir itself.

- Bill





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