Of course, if Bob and Sue are determined to have some fun at the
sys-admin's expense, AND they know that a quick trip to Terminal (chmod
755 filename) before uploading it to the server will allow them time to
bug the sys-admin before the CRON script kicks in -- unless you set it
to run every minute which is not advisable.
Just looking at the possibilities...
Jerry
On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 05:20 PM, estate wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've been lurking here for a few days but now I have a question!
>
> My department has a Xserve and about 7 Mac client machines. All
> clients fileshare with the Xserve
> and do not netboot. Some folks are transferring files over that have
> read-only group priviliges
> and others in the group open the file, edit but cannot save it.
>
> Example:
> clients (bob, sue) transfer files to Xserve (where they log in as a
> user who are in the same
> group) (bob in dept A, sue in Dept A). Bob transfers file foo.txt to
> the Xserve. Sue opens foo.txt
> but cannot save it because Bob copied it in a way that the Group write
> priviliges are missing.
>
> This is causing me headaches. I want to run a cron job every night
> that sets all files under a
> particular folder to 775 (rwx rwx r-x). Now, is this a bad idea for
> reason that I don't know
> about? This will affect tens of thousands of files every night. Or can
> someone tell me / point me
> to site as to why my clients are copying files to the Server
> incorrectly.
>
> thanks for any advice.
>
> matt
>
>
>
>
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