Change Permissions on Files Automatically 2

[knowlgo]

I read through many of the threads so as to avoid redundancy, so if this is somewhere else please excuse my ignorance.

I need to chmod every file that enters a directory so it is globally writable. Do I need to set up a cron for this? Is there a way to set up the directory so every file is writeable?

Thank you.

 

[motoslide]

You need to change the UMASK setting of whatever process creates those files. That would be the easy way.
Using CRON would be another. The entry would be similar to:

0,30 * * * * /bin/chmod 666 /yourdirectory/*

This would run through that directory every 30 minutes and change permissions.

 

[PHV]

I'd replace 666 by ugo+w

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[hfaix]

diddo what PHV said. ( chmod o+w )

 

[gsgb1]

How about turning on a sticky bit on the directory itself?

 

[knowlgo]

Thanks for the quick response. I added the following entry to cron, to run every 5 minutes but it didn't change the permissions in the directory (I actually had a prefix that I added in for specific files to change). I'm sure there's some small detail that I've missed.

I haven't used the cron before. but the structure of having the chmod command followed by the directory path looks strange. Did I perhaps misinterpret something in the explanation? Thanks again.

5,10,15,20,25 * * * * /bin/chmod ugo+w/dir/dir/dir/dir/file*

 

[PHV]

/bin/chmod ugo+w[highlight] [/highlight]/dir/dir/dir/dir/file*

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[knowlgo]

HEY!!!! It just worked. Awesome. Thanks for the responses.

Cheers.