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.
Results on above machine...
Hi there
We have had a weird problem arise recently whereby a file owned by cjo:cjogroup suddenly had it's permissions changed to nobody4:nogroup. The file is mounted off a NetApp Filer volume with the NFS permissions set to Read-Write Access (All Hosts) but no Root Access.
When we tried to... (1 Reply)
What I need to do is: I need to use the grep command to search for pattern in directory and sub-directories. And also I need to show the permission of file been seached by the grep command.
Could any one please suggest me?
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$> cat file1.txt
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hello,
I have to write a script to run the other script inside it.So iam planning to write like this?
first check the perimissions of the file.
Alogorthim
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if(!filepermissions == execute)
then
echo" Permissions denined"
else
execute the script.
file name is : load_mf.sh... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rajkumar_g
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I cannot seem to post within any thread as I require moderator approval. I believe my permissions have been changed and was wondering whats the reason behind this.
Thanks. (3 Replies)
Hi.
I've had a little mishap.
To cut a long story short, I've accidentally recursively ran chown on a directory (actually a bunch of 'em). Not a problem in itself, but I had a slight error in the code I used to get the list of directories and ended up with a comment in the file ownership.
... (15 Replies)
I was installing cygwin on my Windows 7 desktop. I guess I picked a bad mirror site because the download speed was very slow and it wasn't able to give me all the packages I wanted.
I closed the setup in too much haste. I think it was still downloading and not yet installing though. It said that... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have to work in the late nights some times for server maintenance and in a hurry to complete I am accidentally changing ownership or permission of directories :(
which have similar names ( /var in root and var of some other directory ).:confused:
Can some one suggest me with the... (1 Reply)
Hi,
For a particular set of files, am trying to check if they are writable. i.e., checking whether they are having permissions greater than 755.
Am able to check this using the statement:
"if (os.path.isfile(FILE_PATH) and (os.stat(FILE_PATH).st_mode & 0777) == 0777):"
But the problem here... (0 Replies)
Hi,
For a particular set of files, am trying to check if they are writable. i.e., checking whether they are having permissions greater than 755.
Am able to check this using the statement:
"if (os.path.isfile(FILE_PATH) and (os.stat(FILE_PATH).st_mode & 0777) == 0777):"
But the problem... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I would like to know if it's a good practice to check the file permissions of the contents of a directory before moving them. For example:
mv -- "$directory"/* "$directory"/.* "$directory"/..?* "$destination"The variables $directory and $destination contain the path to an existing... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Cacializ
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chkstat
CHKSTAT(8) Tool to check and set file permissions CHKSTAT(8)NAME
chkstat - Tool to check and set file permissions
SYNOPSIS
chkstat [--set|-set] [--noheader] [[--examine file ]...] [[--files filelist ]...] [[--root directory ]...] permission-file ...
DESCRIPTION
The program /usr/bin/chkstat is a tool to check and set file permissions.
Multiple permissions files can be given on the commandline. If the permission files contain multiple entries for a single file, the last
entry found will be used.
General Options
--set, -set
This option enables setting the file permissions, the default is to check and warn only.
--noheader
Omit printing the output header lines.
--examine file
Check permissions for this file and not all files listed in the permissions files.
--files filelist
Check permissions for the files listed in filelist and not for all files listed in the permissions files.
--root directory
Prefix the files given in the permissions files by this directory.
EXAMPLE
The command
chkstat -set /etc/permissions
will parse the file /etc/permissions and set the access mode and the user- and group memberships each file listed. The format for the input
file is
FILEPATH OWNER:GROUP MODE
and wildcards are not supported for the filepath. Lines starting with '#' and empty lines are treated as comments.
COPYRIGHT
1996-2003 SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany.
2008 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH
AUTHORS
Reinhold Sojer, Ruediger Oertel, Michael Schroeder
Useful changes and additions by Tobias Burnus
3rd Berkeley Distribution 2008-04-17 CHKSTAT(8)