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The directions say to run script as root. I may not be smart, but I am obedient.
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Dxspider-support <dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk> on behalf of Mike McCarthy, W1NR via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 6, 2023 1:16:35 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Mike McCarthy, W1NR <lists@w1nr.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Dxspider-support] Permissions</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Everything in the /spider install path should be owned by sysop. You
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should really do 'sudo chown -R sysop .'<br>
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Why do you run the upgrade as root? It should be run as sysop to prevent <br>
permissions problems.<br>
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Mike, W1NR<br>
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On 2/6/2023 12:28 PM, Kelly Leavitt via Dxspider-support wrote:<br>
> My installation was an ongoing update from many years ago. I was alerted <br>
> by a fellow sysop that I was seriously out of date.<br>
> <br>
> I tried to run the backup/update script <br>
> (*https://github.com/glaukos78/dxspider_installation_v2/tree/devel <br>
> <<a href="https://github.com/glaukos78/dxspider_installation_v2/tree/devel>*">https://github.com/glaukos78/dxspider_installation_v2/tree/devel>*</a>) and
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> found out even my OS was really out of date.<br>
> Updated OS (that alone took two iterations). My site lives on a headless <br>
> VM server so upgrading the OS was a bit of a challenge but I was able to <br>
> do it.<br>
> <br>
> I was then able to run the upgrade script as root, but I still got some <br>
> weird notices about permissions when run.<br>
> <br>
> After a couple of back and forth emails I decided to shut down the site <br>
> and change ownership of everything in the spider directory to sysop.<br>
> <br>
> I changed into the install directory and did<br>
> sudo find . -exec chown sysop {} \;<br>
> <br>
> The I restarted the service. Everything seems to be much more stable now.<br>
> <br>
> I think I'm going to do a clean install on a new instance to verify what <br>
> the permissions on everything should be and clean up the mess I have.<br>
> <br>
> 73 de Kelly, KE2L<br>
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