Re: [CentOS] sticky folder permissions

2008-07-22 Thread Tom Brown
If it is the permissions on the directory that are the problem, then you may be able to change the owner of the logs directory and then give the application rw permissions. That way the application will be able to write its logs, but would not be able to change permissions on the directory.

RE: [CentOS] sticky folder permissions

2008-07-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
Tom Brown wrote: > > What are the applications? What is the directory structure? Is the > > permission problem on a directory or a file? What user account owns > > the application process? Is the app un-doing your manual permission > > changes on existing files and directories, or just not granting

Re: [CentOS] sticky folder permissions

2008-07-22 Thread Tom Brown
What are the applications? What is the directory structure? Is the permission problem on a directory or a file? What user account owns the application process? Is the app un-doing your manual permission changes on existing files and directories, or just not granting read permission to new objec

Re: [CentOS] sticky folder permissions

2008-07-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 15:55 +0100, Tom Brown wrote: > >> Is there any way i can make /opt world readable and make sure these > >> permissions stick to all subfolders and not allow users other than > >> root/sudo to change them? > >> > > > > Make it a seperate filesystem mounted read-only, t

Re: [CentOS] sticky folder permissions

2008-07-22 Thread Jeff
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Is there any way i can make /opt world readable and make sure these >>> permissions stick to all subfolders and not allow users other than root/sudo >>> to change them? >>> >> >> Make it a seperate filesystem mounted read-o

Re: [CentOS] sticky folder permissions

2008-07-22 Thread Tom Brown
Is there any way i can make /opt world readable and make sure these permissions stick to all subfolders and not allow users other than root/sudo to change them? Make it a seperate filesystem mounted read-only, then remount it rw when you need to make changes. i cant as the applicati

Re: [CentOS] sticky folder permissions

2008-07-22 Thread Stephen Harris
> Is there any way i can make /opt world readable and make sure these > permissions stick to all subfolders and not allow users other than > root/sudo to change them? Make it a seperate filesystem mounted read-only, then remount it rw when you need to make changes. -- rgds Stephen ___

[CentOS] sticky folder permissions

2008-07-22 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I have a situation where i need to blanketly allow read permissions on /opt to any user at all. I have some bad behaving apps though that seem to overwrite these permissions and do not set world read on their log directories. Is there any way i can make /opt world readable and make sure