08-22-2008
from what I read, ajilesh is wanting to see what the permissions are in a non-volatile way. I don't know how you do this in csh, but in ksh you can do this:
if [[ -x /usr/lib/sendmail ]] this is true if the user doing the condition, can execute /usr/lib/sendmail
if [[ -r /usr/lib/sendmail ]] this is true if the user doing the condition, can read /usr/lib/sendmail
if [[ -w /usr/lib/sendmail ]] this is true if the user doing the condition, can write /usr/lib/sendmail
but this only checks the permissions of the user performing the, in this case, if/then/else has those permissions. I do not know of any way to convert rwxrw-rw- to the octal 755 to then confirm you have the correct permissions on said file or directory. I have run into this same problem in my own scripting because the file I was checking on needed to be 766 and I was trying to track down when the permissions got changed so I could figure out what was changing the permissions, the only option I found was to ls -l <file> then pipe that into a grep on "rwxrw\-rw\-" to confirm (yes, \- is necessary to ensure it doesn't try to treat -rw as an option some how) it had the correct permissions.
while using chmod is a good suggestion, chmod sets the permissions without regard to the previous state.
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FILES
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RESTRICTIONS
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unavailable, sendmail will stall until the directory becomes available again. The use of non-NFS mounted directories for the forwarding of
files is recommended.
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