What you probably want is umask. What it does is set the default permissions of files you create.
In my /etc/profile is the line: umask 022 It can also be set in your .profile. you can check what your current setting is by umask So when I create a file, it would normally be created as 666 but with umask 022 it comes out as 644, which should be suitable for web pages that aren't cgi-bin. umask works by subtracting the bits from the respective permission bits. Hope that helps rick Stefan Harris writes: > 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 > > 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?) > > Thank you, > > Stefan Harris > Network Administrator / Webmaster > DM Federal Credit Union > (520)235-1179 > -- A picture is worth about 25000 characters. Any more and it takes too long to download.