1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Can someone pleas tell me if there is something funny when it comes to unix permissions and PHP. When php creates a file in unix the owner is nobody...does this raise any issues, and if it does could someone please tell me a web site where I could read more about this. Thanks alot. John (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Can anyone help explain the "s" in the below permissions example. I was reading about the "sticky bit" (t) but I am a little confused. On file "test" wolf% chmod 4777 test wolf% ls -l total 4 drwx------ 2 john staff 512 Mar 19 21:34 nsmail -rwsrwxrwx 1 john staff ... (2 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I saved a perl code in xemacs. I used an xterminal to execute it but unix said that I don't have permission. I saved the files in my home directory. How do I change the permission. This is hat unix said: -ksh: ./names.pl: cannot execute (5 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

to prohibit 'others' from deleting files, what should we omit: write or execute? thx (9 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a challenging task,in which i have to find the duplicate files by its name and size,then i need to take anyone of the file.Then i need to open the file and find for more than one pattern and count of that pattern. Note:These are the samples of two files,but i can have more... (2 Replies)

6. HP-UX

Hi, I am a Unix Admin. I have to give the permissions to a user for creating new file in a directory in HP-Ux 11.11 system since he cannot able to create a new file in the directory. Thanks in advance. Mike (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a cron on a Linux server that isn't executing properly. CRON (with specific info replaced): MAILTO=emailaddress@server.com */2 * * * * python /data/site/cron.py OUTPUT: python: can't open file '/data/site/cron.py ': No such file or directoryAdditional info - The python path is... (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

My /tmp is set with the following permissions (777) and a 't' at the end. My umask is set to 022. When I create a directory under /tmp (tmp/xx) it gets created as 755 as expected. Yet when I create a file within that directory (/tmp/xx/yy) the permissions are not 755 they are 644. ... (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am creating a ksh script to search for a string of text inside files within a directory tree. Some of these file are going to be read/execute only. I know to use chmod to change the permissions of the file, but I want to preserve the original permissions after writing to the file. How can I... (3 Replies)

10. Solaris

Hi I have following directory : => ls -ltr total 0 drwxrwxr-x 2 wmdwhadm dba 8192 Apr 02 23:22 in-process/ => id wmdwhadm uid=210(wmdwhadm) gid=1(staff) groups=251(cogadmin) My first question is although directory belong to dba group, then why "id wmdwhadm" command doesn't... (3 Replies)