Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:48:10 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, bmah@freebsd.org, www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELNOTESng on Web site Message-ID: <20010910224810.F6391@clan.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <20010910211358.A21159@freno.cs.tu-berlin.de>; from wosch@freebsd.org on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:13:58PM %2B0200 References: <20010821104242.B93901@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20010831154356.9CFA23E35@bazooka.unixfreak.org> <20010831171735.M46201@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20010902150220.B19172@freno.cs.tu-berlin.de> <20010903134831.Q46201@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20010910211358.A21159@freno.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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--qxfKREH7IwbezJ+T Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:13:58PM +0200, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > On 2001-09-03 13:48:31 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > > Wolfram, > >=20 > > On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 03:02:21PM +0200, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > > > > > > /usr/local/www/bin/webupdate now checks out www/tools/webup= date in > > > > > > to the same directory as "webupdate.run". > > > > >=20 > > > > > This doesn't seem to be the case anymore. It seems that > > > > > /usr/local/www/bin/webupdate was replaced with whatever was there > > > > > before you did anything: > > > > >=20 > > > > > dd@freefall% cd /usr/local/www/bin > > > > > dd@freefall% ls -l webupdate > > > > > -rwxrwxr-x 1 wosch www 781 Aug 28 10:30 webupdate > > > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > > Is there a reason why? From the logs, it seems that webupdate was > > > > > doing just fine with its work. > > > >=20 > > > > Not a clue. > > > >=20 > > > > Wolfram? Any ideas? > > >=20 > > > i removed your wrapper script because it was to buggy and > > > insecure. > >=20 > > Care to be more specific? >=20 > here is your script: > #!/bin/sh > # > # Update the FreeBSD WWW server from the CVS repository. > # > # This is small stub script. The script that builds the web tree is also > # stored in CVS. So simply check out an up to date copy of that script, = and > # then call it. > =20 > PATH=3D/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin; export PATH > =20 > cvs -d /home/ncvs checkout -p www/tools/webupdate > webupdate.run >=20 > 1. this flooded my mailbox with useless rcs checkout=20 > messages. One of the main goals of the webupdate script > is to avoid useless log messages Redirect them, and/or point the www mail somewhere else. I'm happy to receive and monitor them. One man's useless log message is another man's reassurance that the process is running correctly. > 2. you created a shell script in my private home directory! > This is silly and insecure. I never give you the permission > to create or modify files in my home directory on freefall. No. I created the script in /usr/local/www/bin. Actually, I copied the pre-existing script to /usr/local/www/bin/webupdate.org (it's still there) and modified /usr/local/www/bin/webupdate. /usr/local/www !=3D /home/wosch. > sh webupdate.run > rm webupdate.run >=20 > 3. you are removing a file in my home directory. See 2) See above, ditto. N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- --qxfKREH7IwbezJ+T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjudNRoACgkQk6gHZCw343UVxACeKf4G+ACcr5m61zbygCxlwfrG GfkAn3bt6soTpiuAqbIxw51LBH32O+8k =3YRz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qxfKREH7IwbezJ+T-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-www" in the body of the message
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