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Re: Webmaster



Nicholas Lee wrote:

>> Yep. We need some submission mechanism for the "news" section and perhaps
>> also the FAQ etc (apropos FAQ - I think we had a FAQ maintainer some time
>> ago - where is he??).
>
>Stephane Peter wrote the first (and only) FAQ.  However I have suggested

No, there was also someone else, wait, <looking>, yes, Jean-Martin Lotz is
also listed as FAQ author...

>that faq-o-mantic could be set up.
>
>Then questions could be added and maintained though the web.
>
>Essentially it requires a cgi (perl) module to be installed, cgi
>permissions given to one file, and one cron job.

Should be no problem. AFAIK the CVSWeb stuff is also just a perl cgi thing.
The only possible problem could be giving a relatively unknown script
execute rights on the server. But as long as it has only access permissions
for our stuff this should be ok, too.

>I can set it up if this is of interest.  (Other than installing the cgi
>package, which is possible just at a user level.  But better at system
>level)

Would be nice. Can you do some planning with Henti?

Cu
	Christian
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