[Dxspider-support] Permissions

[Kelly Leavitt]

The directions say to run script as root. I may not be smart, but I am obedient.

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From: Dxspider-support <dxspider-support-bounces at tobit.co.uk> on behalf of Mike McCarthy, W1NR via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, February 6, 2023 1:16:35 PM
To: dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>
Cc: Mike McCarthy, W1NR <lists at w1nr.net>
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Permissions

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 by a fellow sysop that I was seriously out of date.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 found out even my OS was really out of date.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

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