[Xymon] Monitoring Directory Permissions

[Tim McCloskey]

I just tested this using file instead of dir.  It works for UNIX (everything is a file), can't speak for windows.  I'm not sure that it is designed or intended to work this way and I doubt you can mix DIR and FILE for the same O/S directory.

analysis.cfg
# DIR /foo SIZE<8192  SIZE>4096 COLOR=yellow
 FILE /foo MODE=0644 COLOR=RED TRACK
 FILE /foo OWNERID=johndoe COLOR=yellow

client-local.cfg
file:/foo:md5


Good Luck.




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From: Xymon [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] on behalf of Vernon Everett [everett.vernon at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 2:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [Xymon] Monitoring Directory Permissions

I know, it's a lot simpler to put it right quietly with a cron, or even part of the update process, and I have considered this, but as always, it's political.
The client wants it this way.

With their previous installation of Xymon, I had it working, so I know it's possible.
However, it was all lost in a catastrophic system failure (with no backups).
I rebuilt Xymon on a new server for them, but and I can't a hell remember how I configured the directory monitoring.

Regards
Vernon







On 2 December 2014 at 22:26, Steve Coile <scoile at mcclatchyinteractive.com<mailto:scoile at mcclatchyinteractive.com>> wrote:
What's the point of monitoring for it?  To let you know you need to correct them?  If that, why not just put a cron job in place that sets them properly?


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On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:28 AM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com<mailto:everett.vernon at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi guys

I have a directory on a client system, and it needs to have permission of 777
>From time to time, automated software updates sets it to 770.
I am looking for a way to check this, and alert when permissions are not as they should be.
Any advice appreciated.

Regards
Vernon

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