[Dxspider-support] Permissions

[Mike McCarthy, W1NR]

Everything in the /spider install path should be owned by sysop. You 
should really do 'sudo chown -R sysop .'

Why do you run the upgrade as root? It should be run as sysop to prevent 
permissions problems.

Mike, W1NR

On 2/6/2023 12:28 PM, Kelly Leavitt via Dxspider-support wrote:
> 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 by a fellow sysop that I was seriously out of date.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 
> <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 found out even my OS was really out of date.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