[CF-Devel] Scorn apartments disappeared...

[Mark Wedel]

Kevin R. Bulgrien wrote:
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      At 02:22 PM 8/28/02, I wrote:
     
     
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      The disappearing apartment turned out to be a change in
     
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      world permissions...
     
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      The maps/city/apartments directory has to be world
     
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      writeable...  Since I am running the maps straight out
     
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      of my cvs directory, I need to tweak some permissions.
     
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      Is this normal though?  I would have thought that the
     
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      server saved things to a different place than to the
     
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      master copies of the maps?
     
     
  It should.

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      In general, does the server need the maps directories
     
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      and/or files to be writeable?
     
     
  The maps, at least the ones in CVS, can be on a read-only filesystem.

  I'd try to see what crossfire is trying to write to that directory.  Perhaps 
you have a misdirected symlink or something.