On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 00:31:53 +0100
Paul Gibbons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 15:19:14 -0700
> "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I emerge with the doc USE flag and generally have a bunch of stuff
> > in /usr/share/doc.  Most of the time it's the HTML stuff I want to
> > read, but it's a annoyingly laborious to wade through unindexed
> > directgories and get a browser pointing to the right thing.  So I
> > wrote a little Perl script to create a top-level "index.html",
> > organized by package and with a bit of rudimentary pruning.  I
> > bookmarked it in Firefox, and can get to things a lot faster now.  I
> > like the result, and will continue to tweak it here and there.
> > 
> > Did I just reinvent a wheel? If not, is there any point it trying to
> > make this part of gentoo?  If so, how would one do that?
> > 
> > Current script attached.
> > 
>  Thanks for the script - it seems to create the index file fine.
> However the index.html files are only readable by root. 
> Is there a treat when running emerge to ensure files are readable by
> others?
> 
> 
> 
Try running the script as a different user, and/or maybe appending to
the end a command to change the group to the webserver group (probably
apache) and to group permissions to allow reading.  
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