Hi, I recently had my web host look into the possibility of installing Instiki so that I can use the mathematics markup features. They replied that it is not possible because Instiki requires /dev/null to have permissions of 777.
At first I thought they were making up a story because that seemed quite crazy. But they contacted me again recently to follow up on it. Apparently the reason they think they need /dev/null to have permissions of 777 is this page: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/wiki/instiki/show/CentOS Can I ask: 1) Is that information correct? 2) Are you sure it shouldn't say 666? I in fact managed to install Instiki on Ubuntu with /dev/null having only 666 permissions. 3) Why does /dev/null need execute permissions? Or am I missing something? Needless to say, they cannot change the permissions of /dev/null on a shared server. Also, they are currently stuck with Ruby 1.8.7. They sent me a link to this page: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/wiki/instiki/show/HomePage which seems to claim that Ruby 1.8.7 is supported by Instiki. Is this correct? I was unable to install it on Ubuntu without upgrading my version of Ruby to >= 1.9.2. Bill Hart.
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