Quote:My only access to the site is through ftp, and if I can make that send a chmod to the host I haven't figured out yet. "Literal"/"!" don't seem to do it, and shell access just gives me the PC I'm on.Are you sure you don't have telnet or secure shell (ssh) access to the webserver? (It's quite possible that you don't - telnet can be dangerous in the wrong hands, because it allows remote users to run commands on the server.) Either would require a telnet client on your PC - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/]PuTTY and http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html]Tera Term are both good-quality freeware telnet clients.
If you do, then telnet to the server and run chmod in that session.
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Rob Kelk
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