Re: Xbit being reset at remote save (Solved; suggests possible change to future version)

[Andrew Willett]

No, it's a Linux server. The execute permission lets me use server-side includes without the .shtml extension, which is a trick I've been using forever (google XBitHack for details). In researching this issue, though, I've found that there's a more efficient way to deal with it, via the .htaccess file. So this issue becomes moot.

BUT I did talk with my web hosts* while trying to figure things out, and they explained what was going on in a way that suggests a possible update to BBEdit. They said that they'd recently upgraded their FTP servers to use "atomic file replacement" -- so that, when given the command to replace a file, rather than blanking out a file's contents and then updating it with the new incoming text, their servers now create the new file under a temporary name, delete the old one, and then rename the temp. Because the default permissions for a new file is 644, that's what the replacement file ends up with -- no matter what it had before. BBEdit, quite reasonably, doesn't anticipate any change in permissions, and does nothing to make sure that the new file maintains it.

Maybe in a future update, BBEdit could automatically follow up the save process with a CHMOD command, just to be sure that the permissions after the save are the same as they were before it?


*The truly excellent TigerTech.net

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Doug McNutt <doug...@macnauchtan.com> wrote:

At 22:47 -0700 8/13/08, Andrew Willett wrote:
>Permissions on HTML documents on my webserver are kept at 744 (rwxr--
>r--). However, I find that whenever I use BBEdit to make changes to
>these documents remotely, the permissions are suddenly reset to 644
>(rw-r--r--). I then have to use the 'get info' button on BBEdit's FTP
>browser (or some other method, like the 'get info' function on
>Transmit, my FTP client of choice) to put the file permissions back
>when I need them.
>
>This is a new problem: I've only noticed it within the last month or
>two. I'm using BBEdit 8.7.2 and Mac OS X 10.5.4. Any thoughts?
>Throwing out the BBEdit Prefs Data file doesn't seem to make a
>difference -- anything else I might try? Is anybody else experiencing
>this?

I thought I'd never say it but why in the world would you want execute permission on an HTML file? Is your host using Microsoft software?

In any case I'd bet that your web host has done something to get rind of the x rather than something BBEdit might do. If you have a shell account on your web host you should check your setting for "umask".. Try that command in a bbedit worksheet to see what it's all about. FTP on the host might be executing an "rc" file associated with your username.

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