First post of 2020 | |
Wednesday Jan 1 6:59:17 2020 | |
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The first post of the year has to be about pharc and its performanc | |
this has been the ritual since I wrote the script. It worked well a | |
usual creating the 2019 archive and the gophermap. There was howeve | |
small flaw in all this. It was the permissions of the new files. | |
Everybody knows that setting the right permissions to new files is | |
crucial, I have my umask set to 002 and I usually have no problems | |
all. New files get 644 and directories get 755. | |
However the new directory and files created by pharc where not | |
world readable this time. After a bit of reseach I found out that t | |
link to the gopher hole at sdfeu is: | |
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root arpa 20 Sep 2 2015 gopher -> | |
/ftp/pub/users/chals/ | |
This might be the issue. Of course I could make the script modify f | |
permissions after its performance but I think that should not be | |
the right way. | |
If one could count the endless hours spent on all unix systems due | |
file permissions the number would be astronomical, even though thes | |
kind of issues are usually easily fixed. | |
Have a great year and decade! | |