It may also be worthwhile looking up info on Apple's site about "Folder
Action Scripts" . This should allow for an action where all files uploaded
to that folder automatically have their permissions changed to whatever you
need. I haven't used this method but others on my servers mail list have and
say it works fine. I imagine there's a few ways you could approach this.

Greg

On 8/11/04 10:54 PM, "James Devenish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> on Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 07:45:52PM +0800, Antony N. Lord wrote:
>> A PC here in the office uploads (FTPs) a webcam image to an OS X
>> machine (webserver) with -rw-r----- permissions. This image can't be
>> seen when used in a HTML document.
> 
> (a) Fix the webcam software (which you have ruled out).
> 
> (b) Change the group ownership of the file to whatever group the
> webserver runs as. You may also need to change the group ownership of
> the enclosing directory to make it stick (and set `chmod g+s .`, if
> necessary for the filesystem/file functions used with your FTP).
> 
> 
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