Re: tlug: webmastering

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Jim Schweizer wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have a general question about automating tasks on a web
> server.
> 
> Say, for example, that I want to automatically rebuild a mailing
> list archive every night. I can't do this from the webmaster
> account because the permissions on the majordomo directory are
> drwxr-x--x. I don't really want to do this as root either
> because then you end up having to redo the permissions of the
> resulting web pages (besides, I don't really trust myself writing
> root crontabs.).
> 
> There must be a simple solution, but I can't think of it. Help?

make the majordomo directory drwxrwx--x and make sure webmaster and
majordomo are in the same group...?

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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