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by mc2
12 Jan 2020, 16:53
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Preserving FTP existing target file permissions
Replies: 6
Views: 720

Re: Preserving FTP existing target file permissions

Hi again. Not sure if the "custom post-sync script" is a note to yourself or a feature of FFS that I haven't discovered yet.... :-) It's been a veeeery looooooooooooong time since I faffed with the FTP protocol myself (in my youth, although I doubt it's changed much in the past few ummmm d...
by mc2
08 Jan 2020, 12:30
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Preserving FTP existing target file permissions
Replies: 6
Views: 720

Re: Preserving FTP existing target file permissions

Ummm...well, ok, but it'd far better to make it preserve the permissions of the existing file(s) being overwritten, as not all files in the destination might have the same permissions. As I say, the FTP programs I use do that. With the option you've added (thank you) I'd have to have two configurati...
by mc2
07 Jan 2020, 12:16
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Preserving FTP existing target file permissions
Replies: 6
Views: 720

Re: Preserving FTP existing target file permissions

It does the same with both FTP and SFTP.
by mc2
01 Jan 2020, 13:08
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Preserving FTP existing target file permissions
Replies: 6
Views: 720

Preserving FTP existing target file permissions

Great tool :-) One small problem I've found is that when overwriting an existing file over FTP the permissions of the existing file aren't preserved. E.g. cgi files on a web server have to have permissions of 755 (read-write-execute, read-execute, read-execute) but if you Update an existing doit.pl ...