[Pmwiki-users] Fwd: about the makeWikiPage script...

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 10:58:40AM -0400, Crisses wrote:
> 
> Alternatively, I was wondering if PmWiki might not be able to run a 
> script that grabs text files created by a procmail recipe in a special 
> folder:
>   [...steps omitted for brevity...]
> This helps preserve recent changes, all recent changes, etc. in the 
> wiki...otherwise the new pages created are entirely orphaned.

This is a good idea--and should be easy to add as a module or cookbook
item.  I'll see about writing something to do this.

> As for the changing of ownership/permissions on files by using a 
> cronjob: I'm unlikely to get my hosting service to allow me to add a 
> cronjob that runs every 5 minutes to reset ownership of files...is this 
> necessary?  Is there another way of doing that portion automatically?

Have you tried the fixperms.php script added in pmwiki-0.5.15?
Every time a page is accessed (browse, edit, etc.), the script checks
the permissions of that page's file and attempts to repair the
the permissions/ownership if they aren't correct.

Pm