OK, thanks. I've added some logging and now I'm waiting for the problem to reproduce itself but it's been like 6 times in 6 months and I can't find any suspicious cron entries.
Frederik On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 02:46:30PM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 15:17 -0400, Sonny Rao wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 11:59:10PM -0700, Frederik Eaton wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm experiencing a problem on a JFS mount where a certain directory > > > becomes non-world-readable every month or so. It started out > > > non-world-readable when I initially copied it from a CD, and then I > > > changed the permissions to world-readable, but they keep getting > > > reverted. It seems to happen in one direction only - it doesn't go > > > back and forth. I don't think it's just happening when I reboot. I've > > > looked at all the cron jobs on my system and can't find anything that > > > would be causing this behavior. So I'm wondering if maybe this is a > > > known bug in JFS, or if any other JFS users have seen something > > > similar. > > > > I don't think anyone else has reported such a bug on JFS but the > > maintainer (cc'ed on this email) would know for sure. > > No, I don't remember anybody reporting anything like this. I would > suspect a file system bug if the permissions reverted after a short > time, such that a change was made in-memory, but was not written to > disk. But if it happens roughly every month, it's more likely some > outside force is changing the permissions. > > > Sonny > -- > David Kleikamp > IBM Linux Technology Center -- http://ofb.net/~frederik/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
