recurring perms problems

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 13 July 2012 22:26:48 Avi Greenbury did opine:

> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > About 1 or 2x a week, I discover something that isn't working due to
> > perms.
> 
> This is normally caused by processes running as root when they
> shouldn't be. If this repeatedly happens to the same files you might
> find the easiest way to determine what's doing it is with a utility
> like inotifywatch.
> 
> As far as digging around afterwards, the mtime of the file is not
> updated by permissions changes, but the ctime is; the ctime is updated
> when permissions or data are updated, mtime only when data is. That may
> help you pin down when permissions changed, and perhaps help find a
> rogue cron job or similar.

Thank you, I will keep that in mind when and/or if it next happens.

Cheers, Gene
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