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<2d64b284-e66f-4da0-7920-f119f1f753d3 AT cs DOT umass DOT edu> Cc: moss AT cs DOT umass DOT edu To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 17:06:17 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2d64b284-e66f-4da0-7920-f119f1f753d3@cs.umass.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple