Re: Again Re: Netscape releasing source code for 5.0

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Joost Kooij wrote:

> On 24 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> 
> > jim <jim@pcks.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Worst still, linux netscape (and presumably other unix versions) keep
> > > resetting permissions on .netscape/bookmarks.html to 600, which means
> > > that I can't put symlink .netscape into ~/public_html and read my
> > > bookmarks when I travel.
> > 
> > Does ln $HOME/.netscape/bookmarks.html $HOME/public_html/bookmarks.html work?
> 
> Try it with a cronjob that copies the file and resets the permissions.

write a Makefile to do the copy and run that out of cron, so it only
copies the bookmarks file when it has changed.

#!/usr/bin/make -f

SOURCE=$(HOME)/.netscape/bookmarks.html
DEST=$(HOME)/public_html/bookmarks.html 

$(DEST): $(SOURCE)
	cp -f $(SOURCE) $(DEST)
	chmod 644 $(DEST)



craig

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