Copy files between servers

[Bernard Devlin]

I think the umask environment variable is what you need on the Unix
side of things.

http://www.tech-faq.com/umask.shtml

Although since the mounted folder is actually a smb/cifs share, there
may be other issues that complicate things.  You may need to work with
the Windows permissions instead/as well.

Bernard

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Jim Ault <jimaultwins at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Basic setup is
> Rev stack running a send loop in Win 2003 Server
> -1- a text file is written to the C:/temp/    folder
>
> Rev stack running a send loop in OSX 10.5 Leopard
> -2- the  C:/temp/  folder is mounted as a shared drive
> thus has the path /Volumes/temp/  in the OSX Finder
>
> Apache in OSX is serving pages in the /Users/username/Sites/  folder
> The Rev stack in OSX can do RevCopy to the Sites/ folder
>
> however, the permissions are set to 700  vs 644 and Apache cannot read them.
> (note: the files to be 'copied' do not have the same file name since they
> are time stamped file names)
>
> To do a shell("chmod") I think I will have to do SUDO, but since this is a
> continuous process, how would I handle the password?
>
> I know that 'root' user is dangerous, and 'www' maybe as well.
>
> Instead of using RevCopy,
> Is there a way of setting the Apache permissions on the mounted
> C:/temp/theseFilesOnly/ folder?
> I don't know how to specify the mounted/shared drive for Apache.
>
> Any tips or help would be appreciated.
>
> PS.  For the files that are always named the same,
> put url ("file:" & pathToSitesFolder & "filename.txt") works fine since the
> permissions have been set to 644.
> It is just the new filenames on C:/temp/  that the permissions need to be
> changed.
>
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
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