I have a few customers that have problems when ftping files then trying to change permissins it says "550 Could not change perms on /public_html/oscommerce/admin/backups: Operation not permitted" any ideas on how to fix this?
thanks
Dave

Did you try CHMOD'ing that file mentioned in the error?

yes i did

Hmm and what about the files which display the error?

Where they uploaded via a FTP client or something like a php script on the server?

loaded wsftp when i chamod to 777 it gives me the error and stays at 755

I would SSH in as the root admin and try to chmod it that way.

I have done that my problem is customers cannot change it themselves i am looking to resolve this part of it
Dave

Well, you can always write a php script to distribute to them to run or just run it yourself:
http://www.php.net/chmod

Let us know if you need help getting this to work. Other than that, I can't think of any other ideas.

More than likely it's a file that was created by php and you're running mod_php (not phpsuexec). This means any file uploaded or created by the server apache process is owned by the nobody account. Only the apache process or root can change that file.

I am facing the same problem.

I have a client that uses this same forum and is doing some modifications to skin. and now he can not chmod new files, while he can chmod older files.
i am still waiting to hear weather this new files were generated by some script or uploaded.

however, this is very unusal and unnecesary problem. is there some other way besides creating a php script? or if it is created can it be used for all account automaticly?

i just got feedback.
files were uploaded via smartftp as all files before them...
there are cca 500 files so using ssh to chmod them is out of the question...

You need to enable CHMOD requests in your ftp daemon:

vsftp chmod_enable
proftpd should be enabled by default

Pure-ftpd http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/doc/README


And that should get you going in the right direction.

sorry, no help.

i've read doc file (thanx for that) but could not find anywhere how to unable chmod on either user, file, directory.

so far CHMOD works fine everywhere else, except there on those "few" directories and files in it.
i've been able to chmod as root but that is not a solution.

what am i supposed to do with this command: vsftp chmod_enable?
when i type it in ssh it reports that vsftp is unknown command. besides chmod seems to be enabled.

Sorry, that was suppose to be refering to is you were using vsftpd, you needed to put that into the configuration file.

ok i think i found out WHY it will not chmod. Owner is not the user but "nobody".

i will use chown command
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fileowner.html
and as i can see it works.

i hope this will help someone someday...

You should be able to set the default permissions using umask, its been a while since i've used it, so I can't give you the syntax at the moment. The best thing I can recommend is "man umask", and see if that might be what you are looking for.