We upgraded our main shared hosting Xserve this weekend from Panther Server to Tiger Server.<\/p>\n
The next day we started to get some complaints about weird directory<\/span> changes. Since we didn’t move anything around, we were sure these customers were crazy or something. ;-)\u00c2\u00a0 We also had some issues with the permissions not being set correctly on newly uploaded items. Apache couldn’t see the items. I had fought with the OS X Server FTP umask settings in the past and ended up having to lock the ftpaccess file because even opening<\/span> the FTP screen in Server Admin would cause my defumask setting to be blown away. (I wanted a umask setting of 0002)<\/p>\n In the course of investigating these issues, we found that the Tiger Upgrader kept the old FTP server launch info around and was using ftpd instead of xftpd. I figured this out by checking the entries for \/System\/Library\/LaunchDaemons\/ftp.plist on a system that had had a fresh 10.4 server install. Once I copied over the correct directives and did a launchctl unload and load, FTP service behavior returned to “normal”.<\/p>\n Ugh. Thanks, Apple.<\/p>\n Now, I have to go back to all the systems we’ve upgraded from 10.3 to 10.4 and make sure this nonsense hasn’t happened anywhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We upgraded our main shared hosting Xserve this weekend from Panther Server to Tiger Server. The next day we started to get some complaints about…<\/p>\n