[Openfc-tech] pre-steps

[Luka P. <no...@sk...>]

hi all.

i spent first two hours just now on making some adjustments
to environment on sourceforge, specificaly (s)ftp space and
shh.

in fact by loging to ssh <username>@openfc.sourceforge.net i
discovered neat shell environment suitable for most of
scripting etc.

so first i did the following:

made a quicklink from my home dir to openfc
	ln -s /home/groups/o/op/openfc/ openfc

so i don't need to go through the tedious cd /home/groups..



changed my umask in .bash_profile from 022 to 002 so that
whichever file or directory i create through the shell or
scripts is writable by anyone in the group
	umask 002
	
unfortunately this doesn't work for ftp uploads. although i
tried to find some method of setting permissions through ftp
the server on the other side seems to be all too limited for
now, so the best way to deal with the intention to enable
changing files and directories by everyone in openfc group is
to ssh yourself to sourceforge, chdir to openfc/htdocs folder 
and issue "chmod g+w -R *"




i created a small script that anonymously logs onto openfc
cvs and checksout whole "code" folder to htdocs/cvs/code.
i've put that into my crontab so it does that every night. if
one needs to update it manually there's a same script (quite
user friendly) in /home/o/op/openfc/ folder (cvs-update),
which can be run by ./cvs-update. the script also changes
permissions if there are any new files in cvs that would need
to be changed separately on ftp, although i don't see any
sense in that.

the incorporation into html-dev site on openfc.sourceforge
can be done easily: we just had phpopenfc dir which is
supposed to be the 'nighly' mirror of cvs. now all it needs
to be done is throw away that dir and make a symlink instead
like: 
	ln -s /home/groups/o/op/openfc/cvs/code/PHP\ openfc/ phpopenfc

in fact there's already a link phpopenfc_ which can be just
move-ed:
	mv phpopenfc_ phpopenfc

after the old phpopenfc folder is removed, of course.

that's all for now.

just a small stickit note for you, adam,:
don't forget: reply-to for this m-list
and you might just do chmod g+w -R /home.../openfc/htdocs/*
if you find time in next two or three days.



love, luke


				       
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