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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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