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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Is there a way to check when the permissions for the file got changed in AIX Post 302876395 by wisecracker on Sunday 24th of November 2013 04:54:19 AM
Old 11-24-2013
Hi Vishal_dba...

If you are not sure experiment longhand first, this checks on the fly.
Admittedly it is not AIX but I am sure you can adapt the principle.
OSX 10.7.5, default bash terminal.
Code:
#!/bin/bash --posix
echo "This is a test string..." > /tmp/currentfile
chmod 755 /tmp/currentfile
cp /tmp/fileone /tmp/oldfile
chmod 755 /tmp/oldfile
hold=2
while true
do
	filecurrent=`ls -l /tmp/currentfile`
	fileold=`ls -l /tmp/oldfile`
	if [ "${filecurrent:0:10}" == "${fileold:0:10}" ]
	then
		echo "No change in permissions..."
		: # Do other stuff as required...
		sleep $hold
	else
		echo "Permissions changed..."
		break
	fi
	cp /tmp/currentfile /tmp/oldfile
	# The line below added for this DEMO...
	chmod 744 /tmp/oldfile
done
echo `date`

Results on above machine...
Code:
Last login: Sun Nov 24 09:44:12 on ttys000
AMIGA:barrywalker~> chmod 755 permissions.sh
AMIGA:barrywalker~> ./permissions.sh
No change in permissions...
Permissions changed...
Sun 24 Nov 2013 09:46:43 GMT
AMIGA:barrywalker~> _

 

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