Setting file permissions at FTP site.

Roland Illig roland.illig at gmx.de
Tue Jan 13 08:13:01 UTC 2009


Tim Johnson schrieb:
> Greetings:
> 
> I've used MC for years. For the last couple of years, I've
> been using it as a FTP client. One thing I can't do
> is set file permissions at an FTP site. I get the 
> "Cannot execute commands on non-local filesystems" error.

You cannot change file permissions by executing the "chmod" command.
That would require a fully simulated filesystem environment for chmod.

But you _can_ change the permissions via a dialog, which is accessible
via the menu "File -> chmod" or the hotkey "C-x c".

Roland



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