[SunHELP] Directory Permissions

[Haydar Yilmaz]

I advice you to create a symbolic link to the file/directory in /opt, 
instead of changing the permission. You can create the link in the home 
directory of the user, and he/she can use the link for the log files.


>From: <daniel at shore.net>
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: [SunHELP] Directory Permissions
>Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 14:54:25 +1200 (NZST)
>
>Hey, I have 2 clustered machines running an app, for some reason the app
>forces you to put some logs in /var and other logs in it's /opt dir.
>
>There are a group of people that need these logs but aren't allowed to
>view anything else. So being the quickest thing to do I changed
>permissions on the base app dir to drwxr-x--x so they could go into the
>dir they needed and only to the log dir and not see what other dirs there
>were.
>
>This worked fine on one of the machines, but on the 2nd it stopped a
>script being run by owner of the directory.
>
>All the script was doing was ftping to a site, changing it's local dir,
>downloading and then deleting off the remote machine. But on this 2nd
>machine it got to changing it's local directory and then bombed out
>telling you "invalid spawn id(6)"
>
>Also, if you ran this script manually it did the same thing, bombed out
>and then you couldn't do certain things, like use man pages it said
>"getcwd: permission denied", you couldn't change your password etc.
>
>Basically, these 2 machines should be exactly the same, the script on
>either machine _are_ exactly the same, so i'm wondering what someone has
>done, either myself or someone else.
>
>Any ideas would be great, thanks
>
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