[Dxspider-support] Permissions

[Kelly Leavitt]

My installation was an ongoing update from many years ago. I was alerted by a fellow sysop that I was seriously out of date.

I tried to run the backup/update script (https://github.com/glaukos78/dxspider_installation_v2/tree/devel) and found out even my OS was really out of date.
Updated OS (that alone took two iterations). My site lives on a headless VM server so upgrading the OS was a bit of a challenge but I was able to do it.

I was then able to run the upgrade script as root, but I still got some weird notices about permissions when run.

After a couple of back and forth emails I decided to shut down the site and change ownership of everything in the spider directory to sysop.

I changed into the install directory and did
sudo find . -exec chown sysop {} \;

The I restarted the service. Everything seems to be much more stable now.

I think I'm going to do a clean install on a new instance to verify what the permissions on everything should be and clean up the mess I have.

73 de Kelly, KE2L

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From: Dxspider-support <dxspider-support-bounces at tobit.co.uk> on behalf of Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, February 6, 2023 10:11 AM
To: Dxspider-Support <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
Cc: Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk>
Subject: [Dxspider-support] Permissions

There are some recent reports about permissions being changed after updates.

I should like to see some concrete evidence of the sort of these permission changes, in order to determine where the problem is. But I will make one observation: users *must* be the sysop user when doing an update. Doing an update as root may (or more likely) not give you the (velvety) smooth experience that (I'm sure [honest :-]) that you are used to.

If you do experience "permission problems" please send me examples + how you went about doing the failing update.

73 Dirk G1TLH
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