New server admin...
okay i didn't ask for this!!! I manage 3 corporate websites and our ISP recommended leaving our current hosting plan for a reseller plan... Basically it's a Linux server running an admin GUI called Webppliance. Since setting it up - DNS, shopping cart, etc., I've noticed that file/folder permissions in a couple websiteds change automagically, namely execute permission. Does anyone have any idea way the permissions would change just about daily on different files and folders on different websites?
I am not a server administrator but am having to learn very fast, any help would greatly be appreciated. BE GENTLE
Brian Farkas posted this at 01:34 — 27th February 2002.
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That definitely sounds strange, though that has been known to happen on control panel updates... If you want to "lock" a file, chmod it to its appropriate value and issue the "chattr +i" command at the shell prompt. If you need to modify it later, you'll need to 'unlock' it by doing a "chattr -i". Hope this helps!
Brian Farkas
mairving posted this at 02:31 — 27th February 2002.
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Well I guess the question is when did the permissions change. When you transfer the files or when you ran WebAppliance.
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