From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 8 09:12:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA11353 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 09:12:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dove.peace.com.my (peace.com.my [202.184.153.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA11344 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 09:12:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from panda@peace.com.my) Received: from lovebox (love.com.my [202.184.153.17]) by dove.peace.com.my (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA09420; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 00:55:37 +0800 (SGT) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 00:55:37 +0800 (SGT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980209011803.00937500@peace.com.my> X-Sender: panda@peace.com.my X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) To: John Goerzen From: chas Subject: Re: How does one allow changing of file modes from an FTP client ? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:26 AM 2/8/98 -0600, John Goerzen wrote: >I suspect the command you are looking for is "site chmod". > >John You suspect correctly and I am supremely humbled. Got to admit the man entry was a wee bit enigmatic : "site arg1 arg2 ... The arguments specified are sent, verbatim, to the remote FTP server as a SITE command." Although the help whilst in an ftp session was better : ftp> site help 214-The following SITE commands are recognized (* =>'s unimplemented). UMASK IDLE CHMOD HELP Thanks a lot John, chas >On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, chas wrote: > >> I remember WSFTP client (for Windows) let me change >> the mode of files (eg. to make CGI scripts executable) >> without using telnet. How does this work since I can't To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message