From: bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding) Subject: Re: [Q] Slackware distribution has permission problems. Date: 28 Jul 1993 02:08:00 GMT
In a previous article, fritz@xlnt.zk3.dec.com () says:
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>
> Hi,
>
> I tried grabbing the Slackware 1.0 distribution on mhd3.moorhead.msus.edu at
>/pub/linux/slackware but it has access permission problems. Its owned by
>root with modes of 700. This looks like an oops, it should be 755. Can anyone
>verify this for me or better still change the tree permisions so read
>permissions are possible for everyone. Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob.
>
The /pub/linux/slackware directory was closed due to machine crashes
from FTP traffic. I wish I could've left it open, but the system is an
AT&T 3b2 with only a couple of megs of RAM, and also has a limited
number of streams. About every 2 hours, the machine would reach a state
where all the streams are connected to hung ftpd's, and I'd have to hard
reboot because I can't even net in to it when it gets that bad.
You can still get the 1.0 release as a 31M tarfile in /incoming at
ftp.cdrom.com. There have been some fixes to the package that are
available in /pub/linux on mhd3.moorhead.msus.edu. There is also scsi
support in /pub/linux/scsi.
There are some more fixes and upgrades on disk here, but I'm waiting for
word back from someone at cdrom.com. The distribution should soon be
available under /pub/linux at ftp.cdrom.com in it's normal directories
like it was on mhd3.moorhead.msus.edu. When that happens, you'll
probably see a 1.01 announcement with some more upgraded software and a
few links and permissions fixed.
-- Patrick Volkerding volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu bf703@cleveland.freenet.edu