Are you logging-in to your

JeevesBond — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:07:44 +0000

Are you logging-in to your VPS FTP using the root account? If not, it could be that the files you're trying to CHMOD were created by the root user and the FTP user is not allowed to change them.

Have you tried SSH-ing into the server and looking in the configuration file for your FTP server? See if the file: /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf exists. Usually the configuration files have copious notes included on what the settings do. There should a chmod_enable setting in there you can change.

If you get stuck, let us know where you are and we'll talk you through it.