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"Dan" <falseflyboy@yahoo.comNONO> writes:

> i messed up my read/access by using chmod...will someone tell me the default
> umask for /var/ftp/incoming

There's no default, really, because that directory doesn't exist by
default.  What you want the permissions to be depends on, among other
things, who owns it.  See the ftpd(8) manual for instructions on
setting up an anonymous FTP directory.