Ah yes, meant to mention that. Red Hat 7.3 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tanner Lovelace Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 3:33 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Strange perms change..
Brian A. Henning wrote: > 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? Cheers, Tanner -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
