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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Stop root from writing to directory Post 303041559 by Neo on Wednesday 27th of November 2019 09:11:51 PM
Old 11-27-2019
This is a trivial problem to solve without any necessity to tinker with root permissions, etc.

So, when I have this kind of problem (and I have seen the kind of problem often), I would just remove the directory that your process is trying to write to. Problem solved.

In the next case:

If the process writes to a directory you do not want to remove because other processes write to the same directory and you don't want to reconfigure other processes to write to a different directory, then I would just create a crontab file which runs often and deletes the files you want deleted.

In the case where the file name of the log is the same, then just link the name of that file to /dev/null and problem solved. No need for a cron process..

In other words, there are many ways to solve this simple annoying problem.. These are but a few ways to do it.

This is also an example of why it is best, by far, to get people who post here at unix.com to describe the exact problem they are trying to solve, generally speaking.
 

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REPORTER-MAILX(1)						 LIBREPORT MANUAL						 REPORTER-MAILX(1)

NAME
reporter-mailx - Sends contents of a problem directory via email. SYNOPSIS
reporter-mailx [-v] -d DIR [-c CONFFILE] DESCRIPTION
The tool reads a problem directory, composes an email message from the directory contents, and uses mailx to send the message to specified recipient. Properties of email messages can be specified in a configuration file, and via environment variables. Configuration file Configuration file contains entries in a format "Option = Value". The options are: Subject The subject of the email message. EmailFrom The sender of the email message. EmailTo The recipient of the email message. SendBinaryData Use yes/true/on/1 to attach all binary files from the problem directory to the email. This can cause the emails to be very large. Integration with ABRT events reporter-mailx can be used as a reporter, to allow users report problems via email when they decide to do it. This usage is pre-configured in /etc/libreport/events.d/mailx_event.conf: EVENT=report_Mailx reporter-mailx It can also be used to notify administrator automatically when a problem happens. When this is desired, modify the event configuration file to run the tool on the post-create event: EVENT=post-create reporter-mailx OPTIONS
-d DIR Path to problem directory. -c CONFFILE Path to configuration file. When used in ABRT event system, the file contains site-wide configuration. Users can change the values via environment variables. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
Environment variables take precedence over values provided in the configuration file. Mailx_Subject Subject of the email message. Mailx_EmailFrom Sender of the email message. Mailx_EmailTo Recipient of the email message. If nor the environment variable nor the corresponding option is defined, the message is send to "root@localhost". Mailx_SendBinaryData Use yes/true/on/1 to attach all binary files from the problem directory to the email. AUTHORS
o ABRT team LIBREPORT 2.1.11 06/18/2014 REPORTER-MAILX(1)
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