Re: ftp ng

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1999

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texte = I'm afraid you have probably munged up the entire server if you changedownership on all files, instead of only the WebCat section. I would do acomplete reinstall from scratch of the entire system (make a backup of your userfiles first, of course). Unix owner/rights issues are not for the fainthearted, or overeager.Once you have your machine back in working condition, you need to get a book onUnix administration. O'Reilly has one that is vastly out of date but stillincredibly useful. You need to face the facts that Unix is a multiuseroperating system with a long history, and a high level of security. You are notrunning a single user Mac anymore and you need to adjust your operatingprocedures accordingly. A suid script (look it up) that sets all files withinthe WebCatalog heirarchy to be owned by www would be sufficient to start with. If you are trying to operate multiple sites with multiple developers without anyexperience under Unix, you are going to have lots of trouble.Sorry to be so negative, but I thinks it's for your own good...John Peacock____________________Reply Separator____________________Subject: ftp ng Author: Date: 12/10/99 11:42 AMB&W G3, iTools 5008, WebCat releaseI have removed and recreated users and still no joy with ftp.Uploads work ok and ownership is the site user and group ftpguest. WebCatalogwill not work properly unless .db files and the ShoppingCart and Orders dirmust be owned by www. This is hugely inconvenient both for developers andmyself.When doing updates and testing I to change the site globally to owner thenchange it all back to www. Could part of the prob be that I am changing theusr, bin and System files to owner www?TIAL#############################################################This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to Send administrative queries to Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: ftp ng (jpeacock@univpress.com 1999)

I'm afraid you have probably munged up the entire server if you changedownership on all files, instead of only the WebCat section. I would do acomplete reinstall from scratch of the entire system (make a backup of your userfiles first, of course). Unix owner/rights issues are not for the fainthearted, or overeager.Once you have your machine back in working condition, you need to get a book onUnix administration. O'Reilly has one that is vastly out of date but stillincredibly useful. You need to face the facts that Unix is a multiuseroperating system with a long history, and a high level of security. You are notrunning a single user Mac anymore and you need to adjust your operatingprocedures accordingly. A suid script (look it up) that sets all files withinthe WebCatalog heirarchy to be owned by www would be sufficient to start with. If you are trying to operate multiple sites with multiple developers without anyexperience under Unix, you are going to have lots of trouble.Sorry to be so negative, but I thinks it's for your own good...John Peacock____________________Reply Separator____________________Subject: ftp ng Author: Date: 12/10/99 11:42 AMB&W G3, iTools 5008, WebCat releaseI have removed and recreated users and still no joy with ftp.Uploads work ok and ownership is the site user and group ftpguest. WebCatalogwill not work properly unless .db files and the ShoppingCart and Orders dirmust be owned by www. This is hugely inconvenient both for developers andmyself.When doing updates and testing I to change the site globally to owner thenchange it all back to www. Could part of the prob be that I am changing theusr, bin and System files to owner www?TIAL#############################################################This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to Send administrative queries to jpeacock@univpress.com

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