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Article #34Re: ownership of /bin/df and /etc/mtab
From: Rex Pruess
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 22:06
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 22:06
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gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller) writes:
> Well, maybe it's my fault, but I wonder why the permissions of mtab
> and df are not right set, since 3.0:
>
> -rwxr-sr-x 1 root operator 6692 Jul 21 17:40 /bin/df*
> -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 81 Jan 5 15:44 /etc/mtab
Ejecting disks messes up the correct setting of "644" on /etc/mtab. One
way to deal with this problem is to update the mode setting every 30
minutes or so by putting the following line in /etc/crontab.local:
1,31 * * * * root /bin/chmod 644 /etc/mtab
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Rex Pruess, Weeg Computing Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.uiowa.edu!news.weeg.uiowa.edu!news!rpruess From: rpruess@yoyo.weeg.uiowa.edu (Rex Pruess) Subject: Re: ownership of /bin/df and /etc/mtab In-Reply-To: gemoe@proximus.north.de's message of Wed, 6 Jan 1993 06:40:38 GMT Message-ID: <RPRUESS.93Jan7160658@yoyo.weeg.uiowa.edu> Sender: news@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (News) Nntp-Posting-Host: yoyo.weeg.uiowa.edu Organization: U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA References: <1993Jan6.064038.6744@proximus.north.de> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:06:58 GMT Lines: 17