Re: Creating dir and fixing permissions on existing dirs

[Mark . Burgess]

The natural thing to do would be to make the directories action 
check the modes. I'll have to look at this next week as I "find time".

Mark


On 11 May, Adrian Phillips wrote:
>>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Burgess <Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no> writes:
> 
>     Mark> On 10 May, Adrian Phillips wrote:
>     >>  Am I being dense here - I want to have a directories, or files
>     >> for that matter, that creates a directory and fixes its
>     >> permissions. Now the options today seem to be :-
>     >> 
>     >> - directories : creates but doesn't handle permissions
> 
>     Mark> (yes it does?)
> 
> Sorry, you may have understood this, but, it creates and sets
> permissions the first time but doesn't fix permissions otherwise.
> 
>     >> - files, action fixdirs : fixes perms but doesn't create -
>     >> files, action touch : creates but doesn't fix perms (I posted
>     >> patch to fix this) - files, action create : creates but doesn't
>     >> fix perms
>     >> 
> 
>     Mark> Why can't you just have two rules? There's no reason to do
>     Mark> everything in one rule -- it doesn't cost any more or less?
> 
> Because it creates clutter. In some configurations I need to create a
> lot of directories with different owners and permissions and it means
> have several lines just to create and several to fix permissions
> later. The problem is I want to make sure the permissions don't get
> tampered with later as well otherwise I could just create.
> 
> That doesn't help with mount points either, where a directory is
> created with correct permissions, the mount occurs and the directory
> is suddenly owned by root again :-)
> 
>     Mark> I need to look at this more closely. I haven't had time to
>     Mark> look at the mail recently.
> 
> I had wondered. Anyway, I'm going to sort out a patch for my own use
> again, I'll post it here for general consumption and let you or any
> others comment as time permits.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Adrian Phillips
> 



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