Solaris

Hi!

I have a dir in a server, that receives files with the wrong permissions, so I decide to put on a cron entry that changes its permitions, but because of the time gap, not all of them get changed.
What I did was the following:

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0,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,21,23,25,27,29,31,33,35,37,39,41,43,45,47,49,51,53,55,57,59  * * * * find /dir/sub_dir -type f ! -perm a+rw -exec chmod a+rw  {} +

Can you help me to provide me with a better idea?

If the user account is only for delivering files and it fits to your environment, you could set a umask of 111 for this user to have all files with the same permissions that are created.

If you tend to use the cronjob, maybe just use another * instead of all these comma separated minutes. Have the output redirected to /dev/null to not spam your logs, ie. something like this:

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* * * * find /dir/sub_dir -type f ! -perm a+rw -exec chmod a+rw  {} \; > /dev/null 2>&1

It could be you will need absolute paths to find and chmod etc. or maybe just put it into a little script (I personally prefer that) and call this script via cron.

Depending on how the files are deliviered, maybe you can set a umask with the file transfer tool you are using.

Hi
The files are sent by a mediation device using

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ftp

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Hi

I had an error when trying to change to your suggestion:

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* * * * find  /dir/sub_dir -type f ! -perm a+rw -exec chmod a+rw {} \; > /dev/null 2>&1
crontab: error on previous line; unexpected character found in line.
crontab: errors detected in input, no crontab file generated.

As said, better put it into a script and have the paths to find and as absolute paths.

You can try to add the ftp command

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site umask 111

when sending the file to have it the correct permissions. You can also have the ftpd a default umask in /etc/inetd.conf, but that will be for all transfers then.

Also you might want to think using scp/sftp if possible, since ftp is not encrypted.

the

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umask

command is to run on the server that is sending the files?

No, on the receiving side in the users environment/profile but this will be default for all the user does.

Forget about umask, forget about the cronjob.

Try following:
Add in the ftp-call on the sending side adding

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site umask 111

before you put or mput the files.

That should do the trick.

The owner or sender says that cannot change permission using

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umask

because its not recommended to change the permission of a raw CDR file