Look Ma, No Hands!
Oh look, a new urgent security update!
Really, the difference between open-source software and closed-source software is not the number of bugs, but the manner in which fixes are announced. Err, and the price too. But this time I managed to completely rebuild MuNu's Apache server with all its attentand modulary without breaking anything! As far as I know... Update: DOH! Why the hell does the Apache install script in CPanel reset the permissions on everyone's home directory, forcing me to manually correct the settings for 113 users?
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 01:40 AM
Comments
Posted by: Emma at July 15, 2004 03:36 AM (NOZuy)
2
Now's your chance to do what makes Open Source great: Find the bug in the install script, fix it, and send the patch in.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 15, 2004 10:33 AM (8+XGc)
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Unfortunately, the original bug is in an open source package, but the install script isn't open source.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 15, 2004 10:41 AM (+S1Ft)
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And now that you've done it manually, why can't you do something like this to fix the permissions?
cd /home
find . -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \;
where 700 is whatever the permissions should be. I understand the problem shouldn't happen in the first place, but 'find' does most things I would normally consider doing manually like that.
cd /home
find . -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \;
where 700 is whatever the permissions should be. I understand the problem shouldn't happen in the first place, but 'find' does most things I would normally consider doing manually like that.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 16, 2004 06:33 AM (sCYzS)
5
There are some directories in there that will break if I change their permissions from the default. So when I say manually, I mean I wrote a little script but had to carefully edit a list of directories. That's about as manual as I get. 
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 16, 2004 09:07 AM (+S1Ft)
6
Urg. What a mess. I'm sorry. But thank you, Pixy! Thank you very muchly! You *are* the bestest!
Posted by: Linda at July 17, 2004 07:10 AM (ktJme)
7
I might be a victim of this scourge. Getting this error:
Writing to '/home/nick/www/index.php.new' failed: Opening local file '/home/nick/www/index.php.new' failed: Permission denied
Writing to '/home/nick/www/index.php.new' failed: Opening local file '/home/nick/www/index.php.new' failed: Permission denied
Posted by: Nick Queen at July 18, 2004 06:33 AM (gBeRV)
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