File Permission Changes

Hello,

I recently found the cause of a problem I was experiencing. The file permissions for two scripts that I created somehow changed from 777 to 644. I had these scripts in crontab and they all of a sudden stopped working. However, two other scripts - in different directories - kept working.

Does anyone know why/how this could have happened? Nothing was accomplished during the time frame that the scripts stopped working. At least nothing that I've found so far.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Occam's Razor ! Glad you found the cron problem.

Are you the only user? Is it possible someone else changed the permissions on you?

It's happend to me countless times that one of "rooters" have accidentally chmod, chown, or chgrp on directories and/or files.

Nope, I'm the only person in our shop with the knowledge to navigate through the different directories. I'm not worried at all about someone changing anything. But, I did ask anyway.

Yeah, other than someone goofing around, I don't know what could have caused the change. Maybe a script load on our server, but none were accomplished during the permission change/script outage.

If you or anyone else have suggestions/advice, please let me know. Thanks!

a) an unix man NEVER need 777 , this is reserved for dos specialists
b) you say nothing about what is happen in cron, are you using ftp ?
ftp will change the perms, check configs