Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!sloane From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Re: Accidental deletion of directories. Message-ID: <14655.25376547@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 14 Oct 89 21:56:38 GMT References: Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services Lines: 28 In article , "Ehud Gavron@dac.lanl.gov, eg@lanl.gov, gavron@lampf" writes: > Solution: If it ignored the [news.news_dist],news_source, > news_docs, news_build and news_manager directories that > would be really neat. > > Workaround: Set all directory files to o:rwe,s:rwe. That way, > unless you give News BYPASS priv, it fails to delete the > directory (error shows up in the log file, which is how I > found out). A better solution to this type of problem is to not have the NEWS_DEVICE and NEWS_ROOT logicals point to the top level directory in the news account. I have things set up as follows: NEWSMGR | NEWS_DIST NEWS_V59_SRC NEWS_SRC NEWS_DATA NEWS_MGR ... and NEWS_DEVICE and NEWS_ROOT point to [NEWSMGR.NEWS_DATA]. The only directories under NEWS_DATA are the group directories. A NEWS SKIM only looks under NEWS_DATA and never sees the NEWS_DIST, etc, directories. All of the [.IHAVE_*] directories are under [NEWSMGR.NEWS_MGR]. -- USmail: Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045 E-mail: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, sloane@ukanvax.bitnet, AT&T: (913)864-0444 "The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage." -- Mark Russell