Making Files Readonly With a script

[Alan Connor]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:50:02 +0100, JRH <john.nntp@yoredale2003.uklinux.net> wrote:

>
>
> Brad S wrote:
>

>> My goal is to make all files in my usershare directory readonly if the
>> have not been modified within the last 14 days. I am assuming that I
>> could do this with cron, can anyone help me with the commands that I
>> would be using? I have a feeling that the find command will be used,
>> but I am still just a newbie admin.

>
> First create a script that does what you want...
> man find
> man chmod
> will provide the info you need to know.
> Also look at bashref.html for help on writing scripts. It is probably part
> of your distro.
>
> To run via cron, Red Hat and Mandrake (and others probably) have a
> /etc/cron.daily directory. Put your script in there. Much easier than
> messing with crontab. And that way it gets processed by anacron if the
> system is down at the time it should have run. But if you want to be more
> adventurous, try
> man cron
> man crontab
> man anacron
>
> ...John

For the cron.daily script, make sure you use full paths for EVERYTHING.

This should work:


#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/find yourdir -mtime +14 -exec /bin/chmod 444 {} \;

exit 0


Alan C

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[Eric Moors]

> For the cron.daily script, make sure you use full paths for EVERYTHING.

>
> This should work:
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> /usr/bin/find yourdir -mtime +14 -exec /bin/chmod 444 {} \;

I'd add a -type f, or directories will be left inaccessible.

Eric