On 11/10/09, Aristotelis <[email protected]> wrote:
>   Hello all,
>
>  I was trying to setup a backup server for a number of machines, and for
>  a number of reasons ftp was choosen as the underlying tranfer protocol.
>  Since in this backup server from a ftp point of view I wanted to make
>  the files "immutable", but also i wanted the user to be able to create
>  new files under certain directories, i was looking ways to achieve it
>  with ftpd.
>   I didn't find an obvious solution, so i wrote a small patch that adds
>  the -p flag to ftpd and prevents the user from issueing the DELE
>  command. (i didn't like much using -p, but i couldn't think of anything
>  better).
>   Anyhow, i attach the patch, if anyone finds it useful. (flages,
>  suggestions, etc also welcomed ;) )
>

Don't you want sticky(8)?

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