Shell Programming and Scripting

hi,

i want to use chmod command inside ftp. so that what ever files are transfered to the local server will hav 664 permission.

if i use chmod inside ftp , the file permissions gets changed in the remote server and when the file is transffered to local server using get command, it does not have the write permission for group.

Code:

ftp -n $remote<<_ftp
  quote USER $remote_user
  quote PASS $remote_pass
  chmod 664 p.txt
  get p.txt
  bye
_ftp

when i execute this , at remote server file permission is changed to 664, but in local server permission is still 644. can any1 tell how to change the file permission in local server?

its because of the umask set on your local server.

is there any other way to get the files with 664 permission??

is it possible to set umask to 0002 for a particular directory in local server, so that what ever file are transffered to that directory only can have 664 permission.

Unfortunately you cant set it per directory.. You can run the commands on local server with !

after getting the file on local server run !chmod 664 /dir/filename will do the job

Run the umask command before you run ftp to change your local umask to something you prefer.

i dnt have the root privileges to set the umask.

all my shell scripts are owned by root user, i am logging in as "etcftp". when i run the shell script from command prompt to transfer file from remote server to local server, files transfers successfully and the owner of the file is me (etcftp).

when i try to call the shell script via a web page, the shell script is called and the files are transffered, but the owner of the files transffered becomes "apache".

from web page i am calling the shell script like this.

html page calls a perl script and perl script calls the shell script passing the required arguments to shell script.

i thing sice i am initiating the transfer from web page as "apache" user, the shell scripts are run by the apache.

i want the shell script to run by user "etcftp".

is it possible to change the user from "apache" to "etcftp" before calling the shell script. so that etcftp will call the shell script and the files transffered will be owned by "etcftp"

if any other solution, please suggest.

You do not need root privileges to run umask.