[1263] in IS Home Pages
re: Updating the Beginner's Guide to Computing at MIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (oliver thomas)
Fri May 26 15:48:47 2000
Message-Id: <200005261948.PAA1211350@mufasa.mit.edu>
To: Rob Smyser <smyser@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Kris Nyzio <knyzio@MIT.EDU>, is-home@MIT.EDU
Cc: oliver thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: oliver thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: your message of Fri, 26 May 2000 14:02:25 -0400.
<200005261757.NAA21635@melbourne-city-street.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 15:48:44 -0400
From: oliver thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
actually, the resolution of this problem does not have anything to do with
mark's vacation :) while the file /mit/is/resources/newstudcomp.html may
appear to be writable only by mark, keep in mind that these are UFS
permissions you are looking at. they have no bearing on the actual
permissions, since the file is in AFS. the file is writable by everyone
who has access to that directory, which includes everyone on is-acl.
the problem is that /mit/is/views/newstudcomp.html is not a file at all,
but, as kris pointed out, is a symlink to the file /mit/olh/Frosh/index.html.
this file is in the athena documentation tree in the olh volume. this
volume is replicated (there are multiple synchronized copies of it) and
is, by default, read-only.
kris, if you want to modify that file you will need to go into the AFS
directory /afs/.athena.mit.edu/astaff/project/olh/Frosh and modift the
index.html file there. (note the . in front of athena.mit.edu. that
tells AFS to go to the read-write version instead of the read-only.)
however, and easier thing to do might be to just delete the symlink at
/mit/is/views/newstudcomp.html and replace it with a new file with the
same name that has the redirect in it.
let me know if you run into problems, i'll be around all afternoon.
cheers,
oliver
