[Dxspider-support] Permissions

[Kelly Leavitt]

I ran the script as sudo
It still, for some reason, didn't change the permissions or ownership.
Again, this installation has lived on several different machines and been upgraded several times over the years. I'm not surprised there were issues.
I'm sure most (if not all) of the issues were rooted in something I did incorrectly years ago to "fix" a problem.

I'm going to verify the ownership and permissions one more time, but I've now been connected to the nodes for more than 2 hours.
It was a permission error.

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From: Kin <ea3cv at cronux.net>
Sent: Monday, February 6, 2023 1:33 PM
To: 'The DXSpider Support list' <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>
Cc: Kelly Leavitt <kelly at catcorner.org>
Subject: RE: [Dxspider-support] Permissions


It is not how it is executed, it is what is executed.

Just look at the script to see that the permissions assigned are correct as well as the owners.

…

su - sysop -c "chown -R sysop.spider spider"

su - sysop -c "find ./ -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \;"

su - sysop -c "find ./ -type f -exec chmod 775 {} \;"

…



If the script encounters a file or directory with the wrong owner, if you are sysop you won't be able to fix it, ergo...



Kin



De: Dxspider-support <dxspider-support-bounces at tobit.co.uk> En nombre de Kelly Leavitt via Dxspider-support
Enviado el: lunes, 6 de febrero de 2023 19:27
Para: The DXSpider Support list <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>
CC: Kelly Leavitt <kelly at catcorner.org>
Asunto: Re: [Dxspider-support] Permissions



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 by a fellow sysop that I was seriously out of date.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>*<https://github.com/glaukos78/dxspider_installation_v2/tree/devel%3e*>) 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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