Came late to the game. Busy-sorry bout that. Jerry, just bust out a 'lil ole script there; chmod this and 777 that and we're all set! Matt, How are the Apple File Sharing permissions set on the server? I bet they are set to "Use standard UNIX behavior" Change it to Inherit permissions from parent. Reboot. If it works you owe me a beer. If not, I'll take another crack at it.
Schoun > From: estate <estate200 at yahoo.com> > Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:26:26 -0700 (PDT) > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: Re: MacGroup: cron job and file permissions > > Thnanks Jerry, > > I think your right. It would be better to determine why the user is doing this > thing. I'm always > nervous about running a script that affects so much all at once. We have > nightly backups but > still...) > > If they knew what a terminal was I might not even have a problem! ;) > Plus I always have "0 0 * * * shutdown -h 2" on a client machine as a payback! > > anyway thanks for the feedback. > > matt > > --- Jerry Yeager <jerry at browseryshop.com> wrote: >> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>> | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. >>> >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
