I need your help for UNIX Shell scripting, I need to prepare and execute script by unix crontab to check for file's and directoires permissions and change the permissions if necessary.
under /u01/ram/ there are number of file, in which few file are .txt extension files, like as below.
normally, those *.txt should always have 700 permission, but sometime by some user who is part of dba group, by mistake change file perssion like anything 755 or 777 etc.
my need is, under /u01/ram/ folder if *.txt file permission get change then
shell script should perform below action
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give output like what are the files got change (which is not 700 permission)
then
change the file permission as 700 for thsoe file which have wrong permission.
and then send output by mail for those file with the current file permission.
appreciate your help..
Regards,
Last edited by vbe; 06-22-2016 at 05:22 AM..
Reason: code tags please
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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