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On 12/07/2016 16:30, Eliot Moss wrote:
> On 7/12/2016 10:20 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> On 12/07/2016 16:08, Eliot Moss wrote:
>>> This is to the cygwin maintainer of xfig.  Whenever there is a new
> release
>>> and I update the doc files in /usr/share/doc/xfig, my backup program
> cannot
>>> read most of the file.  This is because their permissions are 700,
> and the
>>> backup tool does not run as me (it wants SYSTEM access).  700 does
> not seem
>>> appropriate for doc files - maybe 644, or for executables 755?
> Perhaps in
>>> future releases this can be adjusted so I don't have tp go in and
> manually
>>> change the permissions.  (It's not a big issue that the files don't back
>>> up,
>>> but the backup program stalls on them for a long time trying, so it
>>> needlessly
>>> slows down backups.)  If anybody cares, the backup program is CrashPlan.
>>>
>>> Regards -- EM
>>>
>>
>> the files are 644 on my system,
>> same on the tar file
>>

>> -rw-r--r-- vzell/None    17625 2016-06-29 13:34
> usr/share/doc/xfig/FORMAT3.1
>> -rw-r--r-- vzell/None    20185 2016-06-29 13:34
> usr/share/doc/xfig/FORMAT3.2
>
> True, those files have reasonable permissions, but look in the
> subdirectories,
> e.g., usr/share/doc/xfig/html.  The files there are mostly rwx------ in
> the tar
> file (I just looked at xfig-3.2.5.c-3.tar.xz, downloaded today).
>
> Regards -- Eliot Moss

you are right

$ tar -tvf xfig-3.2.5c-3.tar.xz |grep html |head
drwxrwxr-x vzell/None        0 2016-06-29 13:35 usr/share/doc/xfig/html/
-rwx------ vzell/None     3656 2016-06-29 13:35 
usr/share/doc/xfig/html/accelerators.html
-rwx------ vzell/None      998 2016-06-29 13:35 
usr/share/doc/xfig/html/animate.js
-rwx------ vzell/None    40959 2016-06-29 13:35 
usr/share/doc/xfig/html/attributes.html
-rwx------ vzell/None     7303 2016-06-29 13:35 
usr/share/doc/xfig/html/authors.html
-rw-r--r-- vzell/None    21545 2016-06-29 13:35 
usr/share/doc/xfig/html/bugs_fixed.html
-rwx------ vzell/None     2815 2016-06-29 13:35 
usr/share/doc/xfig/html/but_frm_accelerators.html
-rwx------ vzell/None     2811 2016-06-29 13:35 
usr/share/doc/xfig/html/but_frm_attributes.html
-rwx------ vzell/None     2802 2016-06-29 13:35 
usr/share/doc/xfig/html/but_frm_authors.html
-rwx------ vzell/None     2811 2016-06-29 13:35 
usr/share/doc/xfig/html/but_frm_bugs_fixed.html




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