today i started getting errors "error 550, permission denied " whenever i tried to upload or delete a file on my raq3 with 4webspace.com ?

why is this happening ?

This is most likely because you do not have write permissions for the directory that you are in.

Login via telnet to the Cobalt and type this:

chown username /path/to/directory

This will then give whichever username you choose to have write permissions to that directory. But be very careful with this.

thanks this url solved my problem

at http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-developers/2000-August/002116.html

the thing is since Dec 5, 2000 i have been doing my old way without problems until today but it's fixed now

I had a similar problem.

I found the reason I had the problem though was that I copied the files from another site directory via telnet. The user from the old site still owned the files so when I tried to upload to the new site i got a permission denied error.

As stated above you have to chown the dir for the appropriate user. Hope that helps...