On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 09:46:39 +0200 
 Guenther Grau <Guenther.Grau@bk.bosch.de> wrote:

 > Well, why not run a script before the supscan that makes every file
 > at least readable for world?

...unfortunately, the SUP scanner treats files as "changed" if the ctime
changes ... and just recursively chmod'ing the files will update the ctime
on all of them :-/

 > Sometimes it's not so expensive to buy a failing computer
 > manufacturer. It usually takes more money to get it up and
 > running again ;-)

How true :-)

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