On 2015-06-23 Tue 08:23 AM |, Nick Holland wrote: > On 06/23/15 06:14, Craig Skinner wrote: > > > > Ummm.... I was thinking of something that could generate $RELEASE > > index.txt files, including siteXX.tgz & siteXX-<hostname>.tgz files. > > oh please no. > That is NOT the web server's job! > > This is a task easily -- and properly! -- done outside the web server. > Your script is the right idea, but it should be run whenever whatever > updates the contents of the directory runs, rather than periodically > from cron. >
The release-indexer script is run manually as an unpriv user, after building siteXX files. The script I use to generate siteXX files needs to run as root. I have unpriv cron run release-indexer too, incase I forget that step... > Even if the idea of generating a /very/ special purpose file in the web > server wasn't a bad idea all around, you will note that this also > violates the design of the chrooted webserver -- not only do you now > have the webserver CREATING files, you have it doing it in the content area. > When httpd auto generates an index.html, it doesn't get written to disk. I was thinking httpd could pump out an index.txt file too. Probably pretty much the same code, without the CSS & links. Yes? -- Show respect for age. Drink good whisky for a change.
