Re: New slrn maintainer
Hello,
> > Another related Q: would it be OK to put a script in /etc/cron.weekly
> > that fetches this list? (ofcourse the machine has to be connected to the
> > net then).
>
> That would be acceptable, I think. Better, though, would be to wrap
> slrn in a script that fetches the file in the background if it's older
> than a week (say) when slrn is started. Don't forget:
That's an idea....
> - you'll need a setuid C or Perl program to do this properly. It
> needs to be setgid to news, but no more than that (if /var/lib/slrn
> is group-writeable by news).
OK, the setgid news I understand, but why should it be setuid? And why
specifically a C or perl program?
> - download to a temporary file in the same directory and then install
> it using mv(1) or rename(2), so that failed downloads don't corrupt
> the local copy;
> - add a cron job to clean out old temporary files.
Maarten
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