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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need a script to create file permission change restriction Post 302975993 by vbe on Wednesday 22nd of June 2016 07:36:35 AM
Old 06-22-2016
You did not reply to my previous post ( #7 )...
Before wrting a cron job to change those files, you must know what they are and how import tant they are ( content) as we just ses files with txt extension...

What about your cron does change the perms, only the files are not the same, how are you going to trace? certainly will it be too late as cron did what you wanted adn the time you find you are in trouble you have no more logs to look at..
Reply to post 7 first so we can suggest an adequate solution
 

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