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Subject:	Re: xfig doc files permissions
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From:	"Dr. Volker Zell" <dr DOT volker DOT zell AT oracle DOT com>
Date:	Tue, 12 Jul 2016 19:19:51 +0200
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>>>>> Marco Atzeri writes:

    > back in the mailing list
    > 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


Hi all

Noted...will fix when I have time...

Thanks
  Volker
  

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