Re: [WebDNA] Permission Settings
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2009
It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = > Not really Ken, it uses them, as you noted in your > original post. It uses them in writefile but it does NOT use them in copyfile and movefile. I guess one out of three ain't bad ... :) > Perhaps aspects do not work in how you assume. I made the same logical assumption any programmer would make -- that WebDNA would NOT muck with my file permissions unless I asked it to. Clearly this was a bad assumption in the case of copyfile and movefile. Since this behavior has never been documented until now I'm betting that other WebDNA users will want to know about this behavior too. I posted it here not to complain about it, but to see if you had any clues as to why this was happening -- and more importantly so we could "figure it out" if you didn't know why, and so I could begin to reliably predict WebDNA's behavior again. > I believe Ubuntu has multiple .profile files... > which may affect your umask setting. It does, and I have them all set correctly, but changing umask settings will not fix the problem. The fact remains that WebDNA fails to retain the original file permissions when it copies or moves a file. As long as we know about this we can deal with it. So now that I've documented it here on the talk list we all know what to expect, and I'm done discussing it. Have a nice day! :) Sincerely, Ken Grome
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> Not really Ken, it uses them, as you noted in your > original post. It uses them in writefile but it does NOT use them in copyfile and movefile. I guess one out of three ain't bad ... :) > Perhaps aspects do not work in how you assume. I made the same logical assumption any programmer would make -- that WebDNA would NOT muck with my file permissions unless I asked it to. Clearly this was a bad assumption in the case of copyfile and movefile. Since this behavior has never been documented until now I'm betting that other WebDNA users will want to know about this behavior too. I posted it here not to complain about it, but to see if you had any clues as to why this was happening -- and more importantly so we could "figure it out" if you didn't know why, and so I could begin to reliably predict WebDNA's behavior again. > I believe Ubuntu has multiple .profile files... > which may affect your umask setting. It does, and I have them all set correctly, but changing umask settings will not fix the problem. The fact remains that WebDNA fails to retain the original file permissions when it copies or moves a file. As long as we know about this we can deal with it. So now that I've documented it here on the
Talk List we all know what to expect, and I'm done discussing it. Have a nice day! :) Sincerely, Ken Grome
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