Re: OT: what happened to my permissions?
On 2004.10.5, at 10:40 AM, John Horner wrote: Please forgive the OT nature, but I just know you will be able to help. I upgraded an old Mac I use as a server from 10.1 to 10.2. After the upgrade, the webserver Documents folder had all the wrong permissions. I had to log in via the terminal and CHMOD various things. All is working well now, but not for *new* files. Every new file I upload upload from where and how? has the permissions -rw-r- although the enclosing folder itself is drwxr-xr-x. I'm a bit confused about this, and the more I read about UMASK the more confused I get. Short version of question: how do I set the default permissions, permanently, recursively, for all new files uploaded to /Library/WebServer/Document/ ? Other questions: If I do a rebuild permissions, will it fix this? Will it over-ride various folders which are world-writable world writeable? whaddaya wanna doodatfer? so I have to go back and CHMOD again? Can I run rebuild permissions in Terminal or only from the GUI? And finally, if anyone's really annoyed by this being OT, where should I go to ask for this kind of help in future? http://discussions.info.apple.com/ Admitted, it doesn't exactly look obvious, but if you go looking starting here you can find a unix forum under both Panther and Jaguar. (It's a little better hidden under 10.2.) If you look closely, it's the same forum. If you have a (free) developer account already, you can use the same login name and password to post questions. Not having done what you did, I'm not going to take a stab at your other questions. But what does umask without any arguments tell you? Something like 037 or 015? -- Joel Rees even though much of what I do is not sensible it does make sense if you know why ...
Re: OT: what happened to my permissions?
Every new file I upload upload from where and how? From my desktop machine to the server, using FTP. If I do a rebuild permissions, will it fix this? Will it over-ride various folders which are world-writable world writeable? whaddaya wanna doodatfer? I have some folders within the webserver to which scripts write. There's probably a more secure/sensible way to do it it know, but it's my server and I know all the people who might use it and it's inside the firewall etc etc. Is it more sensible to write to a tmp folder outside the web-accessible areas or something? what does umask without any arguments tell you? Something like 037 or 015? It just says 2. Have You Validated Your Code? John Horner(+612 / 02) 9333 2110 Senior Developer, ABC Online http://www.abc.net.au/
OT: what happened to my permissions?
Please forgive the OT nature, but I just know you will be able to help. I upgraded an old Mac I use as a server from 10.1 to 10.2. After the upgrade, the webserver Documents folder had all the wrong permissions. I had to log in via the terminal and CHMOD various things. All is working well now, but not for *new* files. Every new file I upload has the permissions -rw-r- although the enclosing folder itself is drwxr-xr-x. I'm a bit confused about this, and the more I read about UMASK the more confused I get. Short version of question: how do I set the default permissions, permanently, recursively, for all new files uploaded to /Library/WebServer/Document/ ? Other questions: If I do a rebuild permissions, will it fix this? Will it over-ride various folders which are world-writable so I have to go back and CHMOD again? Can I run rebuild permissions in Terminal or only from the GUI? And finally, if anyone's really annoyed by this being OT, where should I go to ask for this kind of help in future? Have You Validated Your Code? John Horner(+612 / 02) 9333 2110 Senior Developer, ABC Online http://www.abc.net.au/
