Posted by "Matt Palermo" on 09/05/05 23:27

It doesn't make sense to me that the function would work fine on a file and
not work on a directory. Moreover, why would the ftp_site chmod command
produce a working result and not the ftp_chmod? This seems strange to me.

-Matt




"Raj Shekhar" <rajlist@rajshekhar.net> wrote in message
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> "Matt Palermo" <mpalermo@vt.edu> writes:
>
>
>> ftp_chmod($connId, 0777, $folder);
>>
>> The function almost works, but when I check the permission of the folder
>> after it's run, the folder has 410 for permissions instead of 777. So,
>> it
>> is changing the permissions, but not to the correct value. Now when I
>> use
>> the following code, it seems to work fine:
>>
>> $chmodCmd = "CHMOD 0777 ".$file;
>> ftp_site($connId, $chmodCmd);
>>
>> This properly changes the folder permissions to 777. Does anyone know
>> why
>> the ftp_chmod() function doesn't work correctly? As a side note, the
>> ftp_chmod() function works correctly on a file, but not a directory. Any
>> help is appreciated.
>
> Some ftp server (like vsftpd) can be configure to change the mode of all
> uploaded files . There is a possibility that your server is configure
> to chmod your files (in vsftpd it is controlled by the file_open_mode
> option in the config file)
>
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