Afick Frequently-Asked Questions


FAQ Revised: Wednesday 25 August 2004 14:33:42


Table of Contents

1. windows
2. installation
3. webmin module
4. afick report

1. windows

1.1. why is uid (owner) empty?
I use the standard perl module Win32::Filesecurity, which gives access to ntfs acl, but not the owner.
I find another perl module for that : Win32::Perms, but it is not commonly installed

1.2. Why is afick so slow ?
I had some a test on 2 operating systems (linux and windows XP) on the same host, on the same number of files, and it is much slowier on windows ( x5 ).
I do not know if it comes from perl interpreter or from windows it-self.

1.3. Error handling error: 123, GetFileSecurity ...
The problem come from files without acl !. it is fixed in 2.1 release.


2. installation

2.1. can I install afick on my computer ?
afick just use perl, so can work on any unix* computer, and even on windows. it does not need any compilation.

2.2. Makefile does not work on AIX
AIX only use 'short' command options, and 'install' program has not the same options as gnu program.
will be fixed in 2.4.0


3. webmin module

3.1. Can't locate CGI.pm in ...
The CGI.pm perl module is not used (it is in afick-lib.pl from a a bad copy and paste). You can comment the "use CGI qw(:standard param);" line in /usr/libexec/webmin/afick/afick-lib.pl file


4. afick report

4.1. Why the date/time in cron.daly is GTM and not in local timezone?
because I use only GMT at work ...
I will change for localtime in a future release


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