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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 performance,
this has been the ritual since I wrote the script. It worked well as
usual creating the 2019 archive and the gophermap. There was however a
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 at
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 the
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 file
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 to
file permissions the number would be astronomical, even though these
kind of issues are usually easily fixed.
Have a great year and decade!
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