First post of 2020
       Wednesday Jan  1  6:59:17 2020
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       The first post of the year has to be about pharc and its performance, 
       this has been the ritual since I wrote the script. It worked well as 
       usual creating the 2019 archive and the gophermap. There was however a
       small flaw in all this. It was the permissions of the new files.
       
       Everybody knows that setting the right permissions to new files is 
       crucial, I have my umask set to 002 and I usually have no problems at 
       all. New files get 644 and directories get 755.
       
       However the new directory and files created by pharc where not 
       world readable this time. After a bit of reseach I found out that the 
       link to the gopher hole at sdfeu is:
       lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  arpa    20 Sep  2  2015 gopher -> 
       /ftp/pub/users/chals/
       
       This might be the issue. Of course I could make the script modify file
       permissions after its performance but I think that should not be 
       the right way.
       
       If one could count the endless hours spent on all unix systems due to 
       file permissions the number would be astronomical, even though these 
       kind of issues are usually easily fixed.
       
       Have a great year and decade!
        
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