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Re: xfig doc files permissions
>>>>> Marco Atzeri writes:
> back in the mailing list
> On 12/07/2016 16:30, Eliot Moss wrote:
>> On 7/12/2016 10:20 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>> On 12/07/2016 16:08, Eliot Moss wrote:
>>>> This is to the cygwin maintainer of xfig. Whenever there is a new
>> release
>>>> and I update the doc files in /usr/share/doc/xfig, my backup program
>> cannot
>>>> read most of the file. This is because their permissions are 700,
>> and the
>>>> backup tool does not run as me (it wants SYSTEM access). 700 does
>> not seem
>>>> appropriate for doc files - maybe 644, or for executables 755?
>> Perhaps in
>>>> future releases this can be adjusted so I don't have tp go in and
>> manually
>>>> change the permissions. (It's not a big issue that the files don't back
>>>> up,
>>>> but the backup program stalls on them for a long time trying, so it
>>>> needlessly
>>>> slows down backups.) If anybody cares, the backup program is CrashPlan.
>>>>
>>>> Regards -- EM
>>>>
>>>
>>> the files are 644 on my system,
>>> same on the tar file
>>>
>>> -rw-r--r-- vzell/None 17625 2016-06-29 13:34
>> usr/share/doc/xfig/FORMAT3.1
>>> -rw-r--r-- vzell/None 20185 2016-06-29 13:34
>> usr/share/doc/xfig/FORMAT3.2
>>
>> True, those files have reasonable permissions, but look in the
>> subdirectories,
>> e.g., usr/share/doc/xfig/html. The files there are mostly rwx------ in
>> the tar
>> file (I just looked at xfig-3.2.5.c-3.tar.xz, downloaded today).
>>
>> Regards -- Eliot Moss
> you are right
> $ tar -tvf xfig-3.2.5c-3.tar.xz |grep html |head
> drwxrwxr-x vzell/None 0 2016-06-29 13:35 usr/share/doc/xfig/html/
> -rwx------ vzell/None 3656 2016-06-29 13:35
> usr/share/doc/xfig/html/accelerators.html
> -rwx------ vzell/None 998 2016-06-29 13:35
> usr/share/doc/xfig/html/animate.js
> -rwx------ vzell/None 40959 2016-06-29 13:35
> usr/share/doc/xfig/html/attributes.html
> -rwx------ vzell/None 7303 2016-06-29 13:35
> usr/share/doc/xfig/html/authors.html
> -rw-r--r-- vzell/None 21545 2016-06-29 13:35
> usr/share/doc/xfig/html/bugs_fixed.html
> -rwx------ vzell/None 2815 2016-06-29 13:35
> usr/share/doc/xfig/html/but_frm_accelerators.html
> -rwx------ vzell/None 2811 2016-06-29 13:35
> usr/share/doc/xfig/html/but_frm_attributes.html
> -rwx------ vzell/None 2802 2016-06-29 13:35
> usr/share/doc/xfig/html/but_frm_authors.html
> -rwx------ vzell/None 2811 2016-06-29 13:35
> usr/share/doc/xfig/html/but_frm_bugs_fixed.html
Hi all
Noted...will fix when I have time...
Thanks
Volker
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