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In article <8910181405.AA04639@y.palladium.com> you write:
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>       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.

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>       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.
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>       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.
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>       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)
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Mark Seiffert,  Metairie, LA.
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