FTP broken?

[Thilo Six]

Michele wrote the following on 07.10.2007 13:14

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> Hello Thilo,
> 
> apologies about the mistake. I am definitely using ftp.
> 
> here's the log produced by gftp.  I marked with *s two lines, one that
> informs me that the local directory created has been changed to mode 555
> (is this good?)

defently not.
you need at least 700 (in your home) to on directories in oder to save files
in there.

> The other line where gftp tells me that the permission to write in this
> directory (which it created!!) was denied.

well yes. see above

> 
> I have a similar problem when using Krusader (directories created ok,
> but files skipped). but do not know how to create a log file for that.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michele

Did you set a custom umask?
e.g. here is mine:

$ grep mask .bash*
.bash_profile:# the default umask is set in /etc/login.defs
.bash_profile:umask 077

bye
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Thilo

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