[Labs-l] File permissions

[Petr Bena]

Hi,

I would happily help you, but current version of take isn't very
newbie friendly, nor descriptive and alternative I made is having some
"vulnerabilities", so I have no idea how to find out why it doesn't
work (I guess Coren didn't implement --verbose, neither -v[vvvvvvvv]).

Anyway if you tell me which folder you need to set to which
permissions I can do that. Just keep in mind that folders in
/data/project should have g+s permission in order to keep the group.
If you had a tar of that software it changed the permissions to
original which it had when it was created.

On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Hazard-SJ <hazard_sj at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello, for the longest while now, I've been having issues with file
> permissions. I'm aware that we can't directly run chown (at least the last
> time I checked), but that there's a take command instead. I've been using
> that was a workaround everytime I edit or upload something, or clone or
> checkout something, sometimes having files owned by local-toolname rather
> than username.
>
> Currently, I'm in a situation where this workaround isn't working around the
> problem. I've recently installed Pywikipedia version 2 ("rewrite") as a
> package, and it created ~/.pywikibot (a directory), with the owner and group
> as local-hazard-bot. I can neither change the permissions nor the owner via
> WinSCP nor command line (take gave no errors, but it just wasn't "taken".
> I've been trying to come in contact with either Coren or petan on IRC for
> some time now (I guess my timing is off, since I can never get them), so I'm
> still unable to rectify the situation.
>
> Hazard-SJ
>
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