[DECtalk] My thoughts on the archive

[Shaun Everiss]

hi jayson.
I think its easy.
write an index that has the =new uploads directory not on it.
Or make a standard incomming.
Each user has an incomming directory.
the directory does not get added to the index.
In fact the only thing that should do that is the script.
The problem.
if the script needed to check each user, then it would have to check /etc/passwd.
To see what was updated.
The thing is though how would you check the dectalk users only, and not all.
I suppose you could program names in but it sort of would be Hard.
I'll send you something.
I don't use linux but remember I have some code here.
The problem with this is I can't give it to you as its only for student use.
its not a generic use.
At 10:46 p.m. 17/08/2005, you wrote:
>Hello,
>I'll try to keep this short and sweet.  Frankly, I'm tired of all the
>bitching and complaining people have been doing lately.  I fully understand
>that these complaints aren't aimed at me or my server as used for hosting
>the archive, but that's just not the stuff this list was intended to handle.
>Now.  I am perfectly willing to take over the archive, on a primary basis.
>All that would have to be done immediately, at this moment, for me to be the
>primary archive maintainer, is for me to write a new Readme file.  At some
>point I could implement a file upload mechanism, assuming I could find one
>that is secure against people downloading from the upload area, and people
>deleting uploaded files.  For now, my thought on Red Dwarf is to go ahead
>and host the files here, if I do end up taking over the archive, and to give
>those who upload the texts and MP3 files to the archive an FTP account with
>a username and password known only to them, and to have a script run hourly
>or daily to automatically move files they upload into the Red Dwarf
>directory, thus needing no action on my part to make them available.  If I
>do take over the archive, you are such a person, and you are interested in
>such an arangement or have a better idea, write me either on the list or
>privately and we can talk.
>Jayson.
>
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