Frontier as Root

[Sam DeVore]

I wonder if maybe that frontier may not be the best tool for this.  It 
does sound like something that a perl script could do really well.  And 
frontier could just start it using the sys.unixShellCommand in sudo 
mode.  Heck it might even be better to just use cron to trigger it.  I 
wish I was a perl wonk so I could fire off a solution for you,  but 
alas I am not (though I have started playing with python and it might 
be good for this too and it feels in many ways like usertalk).  I do 
wish there was some motion toward frontier running as a service or 
whatever the proper term is, I know that paolo had mentioned something 
about this a while back.  But brian I have got to think that there is a 
perl script out there that would do just this task.

Sam D

On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 08:41  AM, Brian Ablaza wrote:

> I have people uploading folders of files to an OS X server. Frontier 
> runs a thread that loops over the folders and nomalizes the file > 
> names.
>
> When I was debugging this process, I would upload a folder and 
> everything would run fast and smooth. But when other users do it, the 
> scripts run, but so slowly that is is unusable.
>
> The problem turns out to be file ownership. Since these people are 
> users on the server, they are the owners of the files and folders. If 
> I change the owner and the privileges to match mine, everything works 
> as expected. In fact, I can't even run the scripts manually - I get a 
> permissions violation at the point that Frontier tries to rename the 
> files.
>
> Frontier is running with my privileges, since it launches under my 
> login. So I see 2 options:
>
> 1) Check the owners of files and folders and change them using 
> Frontier's ability to run terminal commands. This would be a 
> performance hit and add unwanted complexity.
>
> 2) Run Frontier as Root. Yes, yes, I know it's bad bad bad. 
> But...would it solve my problem? And how would I do it?
>
> Another thought: Is it possible to increase Frontier's privileges so 
> that it can change these files *without* running as root?
> -- 
> Brian Ablaza
> Chief Technology Officer
> Star Interactive
>
> 856.488.2015
>
>
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