[kwlug-disc] Script gets executable flag unset every minute - why?

[Giles Malet]

On 2022-11-20 06:09, Ronald Barnes wrote:
> I've got a script in /root/backups which is owned by root and chmod 0700.
> Every time the seconds roll over to a new minute, all executable flags 
> get reset.

You can prevent this from happening by setting the file to immutable:

# chattr +i /root/backups

You can do -i later once you sort things out.

> What the heck could be causing this?

Not sure how useful this is in this case, but Linux has an inotify(7) 
syscall that can tell you *when* something changes a file (but you 
already know). A quick search found the inotify-tools package, which 
allows this to be used from shell scripts. It won't tell you *what* is 
making the change though.

I realise I didn't actually address your original question, sorry.

g