Once again you guys are fast!
I guess I should have phrased it a little better but you all answered
the gist of my problem.
In the interim I think I may have figured out what the issue is, one of
my software packages writes a temporary file, prior to printing it, out
in
the /tmp directory. We have been having some issue with print jobs
"disappearing" from printers ( users throwing away things without
looking first ), so one of the phone tech support guys wrote a short
script to re-print and then delete those temp files, unfortunately
executed as himself and 2 > /dev/null Something is still resetting the
permissions
on that dir, I'll have to keep digging. Think I'll just run a cron
every few minutes to check
when the perms change and maybe I'll be able to track it a little
better.
Thanks all
-----Original Message-----
> From: Zack Ellis [SMTP:zellis_at_hccanet.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 1998 9:13 AM
> To: 'DEC UNIX'
> Subject: File permissions
>
> Hi all,
>
> I know this may seem simple but...
>
> every night my /tmp dir permissions get changed to
>
> drwxrwxrwt
>
> and then the temp directory acts funny, i.e. files are there and you can
> read them or write them but I can't, for example, print one unless I'm
> root.
>
> So.... what is the t permission, and what might be changing the
> permissions on the tmp dir ( I imagine it's in a cron but I just don't
> see it)
>
> Thanks
>
> Zack Ellis
> Home Care Concepts of America
Received on Tue Nov 24 1998 - 15:57:40 NZDT