I'm desperate. At two different ISPs, directories and files are being reset every few minutes to chmod 644. Neither ISP knows how to modify this behavior, create an exception for my directories, or make it stop. It's a security feature of Linux, it seems. Any help you can give is sorely appreciated!
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Linux resets directories/files to chmod 644 every few minutes
- Thread starter niceLAguy
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It's not a Linux feature. Most likely, a cron job is doing this to you.
If your ISP's don't know that much, I wouldn't trust 'em. Move your pages elsewhere. Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources tony@pcunix.com
If your ISP's don't know that much, I wouldn't trust 'em. Move your pages elsewhere. Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources tony@pcunix.com
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Tony,
It is helpful to know that unless Red Hat does something during its install process to set up such a cron job, they were both completely unaware that this resetting of the permissions is even occuring. What I need right now is the solution. Is there a config file that needs to be modified? Execution of some utility with options that will keep things as they are and create an exception of my directories/files? (Obviously I'm clueless, but all-ears!)
It is helpful to know that unless Red Hat does something during its install process to set up such a cron job, they were both completely unaware that this resetting of the permissions is even occuring. What I need right now is the solution. Is there a config file that needs to be modified? Execution of some utility with options that will keep things as they are and create an exception of my directories/files? (Obviously I'm clueless, but all-ears!)
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