UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello everyone

I've got a shell script that kicks off a number of django web sites. It allocates socket files in a sockets folder that the nginx uses to pass requests upstream.

Problem is on my new ubuntu box, the script seems to run but the socket files that are created don't have the correct permissions.

I need them all to be 777 in order for this to work.

Can anyone tell me how I'd set the permissions on the folder so that any new files created in that folder are created with a 777 permission set?

I think this is sticky folders, although I'm not sure.

Any help, as always, greatly appreciated.

Sticky bit on directories will not help on this; from man chmod:

Code:

STICKY DIRECTORIES
       When the sticky bit is set on a directory, files in that directory may be unlinked or renamed only by root or their owner.  With-
       out the sticky bit, anyone able to write to the directory can delete or rename files.  The sticky bit is commonly found on direc-
       tories, such as /tmp, that are world-writable.

Afaik, there is nothing like this to tell a directory that everything that will be created in it, will have a special set of permissions. There is "umask", but is per shell and not per directory and you can't set a mask that will give the execute bit from the start.
Maybe a cronjob with "chmod -R a+x /yourdir" or something running every minute might help.