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20001030: Gempak NWX permission problem

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  • Subject: 20001030: Gempak NWX permission problem
  • Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:26:43 -0700
Alan,

Thanks for the message.
You are correct, these files just get unpacked from the tarfile.
The problem is that the umask when the file was created at NCEP 
was too restrictive.

I will repack the tarfile with this change.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support




>From: Alan Feltz <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200010301947.e9UJlp415404

>
>To Unidata support:
>
>I have found a file permission problem in the file  gempak_upc5.6.tar.gz .
>I downloaded it on Oct 24 in the morning, so if you are aware of this
>already or this is not the correct place to send this, please disregard.
>Otherwise, here goes:
>
>The problem is with some of the files in the nwx table directory.
>When a non-owner and/or non-group user of the gempak software tries
>to run  nwx , an error is generated of the form:
>
>   $ nwx
>   NWX: table reading error (master/map).
>   $
>
>This appears to be due to the fact that some of the files in the directory
>gempak/tables/nwx  have a file permission of  640 .  I changed the permission
>on  master.tbl  and then received another error:  Error: Could not malloc .
>I then changed the permissions on the 10 files that have permission  640
>to  644  and  nwx  started up fine and ran.
>
>It appears that the files are not installed by the  make install  command
>and that they are simply extracted from the tar file.  I do not think the
>files need to be 640 (at least from what I could tell).
>
>The 10 files I changed from  640  to  644  are:
>
>   gempak/tables/nwx/
>      dclim.stn
>      guidata.tbl
>      hurrcn.tbl
>      intsig.tbl
>      master.tbl
>      mclim.bull
>      osarea.bull
>      sigmet.tbl
>      stations.tbl
>      taf.stn
>
>
>Thanks for your time,
>
>Alan Feltz
>Unix Sys Admin
>Dept of Physics and Astronomy
>University of Kansas
>Lawrence, KS  66045
>address@hidden
>(785) 864-5164
>