Hi folks, Quick question for pondering:
I've a perl script that runs as a cron job once a minute. Inexplicably, I started receiving crond e-mails saying ..."/usr/bin/perl: Bad interpreter: Permission denied."
I nosed around and discovered that this was because, strangely, the user execute bit had been cleared on all the files in the directory in which that script resides. chmod u+x fixed the problem, but I'm very curious for insight as to why the user execute bit would have suddenly cleared itself..
I am running a Norton Corporate Edition (7.something I think) virus scan from my Windoze XP machine that includes a SMB share that includes the aforementioned directory. The timing of the crond messages could potentially (although I am unsure) coincide with the time that the virus scanner reached into the mounted directory tree. Is there any precedent of Windows virus scanners futzing with file permissions on Samba shares?
Yes, I am aware that scanning the Linux machine from the Windows machine is neither efficient nor exhaustive. I just didn't bother deselecting the mounted volume from the scanner's selection.
Thanks, ~Brian
What distribution are you running?
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