On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:52:41PM -0700, Stefan Harris wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I'm new here, so be gentle. > > Whenever a change is made to anything in the public_html directory, I must > > chmod -R 755 public_html <pedant> you don't need to use 755 as the mode for everything, what you need instead is: chmod -R a+rX which adds read permission to everything and execute permission only to directories or files which already have at least one x bit. there is no need to make .html files executable. </pedant> > before those files can be accessed from the web. I am so new at this, but I am sure there is a way to make this directory 755 permanently, isn't there? Does it have to do with ownership? (chown?) > set your umask to 022 then files/directories are created world readable by default. also please wrap your lines to 72 char. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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