bby@palladium.UUCP (Bob Mastors) (10/18/89)
Greetings. I am in the process of establishing a public
access archive area on one of our machines. If you have
experience managing an archive site would you please mail
me a response to the following questions:
a) How much time do you spend per week managing the archives?
b) What type of security problems have you encountered?
c) How do you protect yourself against hostle users?
Any other information you can provide about managing
archives would be appreciated.
If there is interest I will post a summary of the responses.
Thank you for your time,
Bob
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Bob Mastors
Epoch Systems, Marlboro MA (508) 481-3717 (voice)
(508) 485-3241 (fax)
{linus!alliant, harvard!cfisun}!palladium!bbymarks@mgse.UUCP (10/19/89)
In article <8910181405.AA04639@y.palladium.com> you write: > > Greetings. I am in the process of establishing a public > access archive area on one of our machines. If you have > experience managing an archive site would you please mail > me a response to the following questions: What is your defination of an archive? mail? ftp? uucp? I run a mail based archive, so i can speak about that. > > a) How much time do you spend per week managing the archives? 1/2 to 1 hour. I wrote my own software to archive newsgroups and create the file lists and indexes. It can't handle everything so i do the stuff it messes up on by hand. there may be 5 articles a week i have to do, or none. As for the archive server software, it needs lots more work, but it is pretty much maint. free. I do check for bounced mail and try to figure out what happened, and since i use the 'mail' program to send the archive packets i check for dead.letter and see what happened. All in all i spend very little time on maintaining, that is the way i wrote every thing. > b) What type of security problems have you encountered? none yet. i have yet to find a hostile user. yet.. > c) How do you protect yourself against hostle users? Well, with a mail archive, they don't have write permissions, and they can not execute any programs and get the output, so the only thing a hostile user could possible do is try to get the passwd file, but i think (can't remember) that they would get mail back saying it was not found. > > Any other information you can provide about managing > archives would be appreciated. piece of cake. The only problem i have is the machine itself, i am using a 286 with SCO Xenix, and two 337MB (fast) hard drives, the archive is written as a C program to accept requests and queue them up, and shell script executes from cron to process the queue. When the script kicks on, it is goodbye system performance, it eats up a lot of processes and has 5 to 10 files open at once. I will one day re-write part of the script to releave some of this, but for now the script only runs at 04:00 when i am (maybe) off the system. > > If there is interest I will post a summary of the responses. > > Thank you for your time, > Bob Your welcome and good luck. > >--- >Bob Mastors >Epoch Systems, Marlboro MA (508) 481-3717 (voice) > (508) 485-3241 (fax) >{linus!alliant, harvard!cfisun}!palladium!bby Mark Seiffert, Metairie, LA. uucp: rex!mgse!marks bitnet: marks%mgse@REX.CS.TULANE.EDU internet: marks%mgse@rex.cs.tulane.edu