We have a directory that holds the media for a website. We want that directory owned by the apache user and group. But for some reason that directory and all it's files keep reverting to being owned by a user account and group. [root at webservera ourwebsite]# ls -ld media/ drwxrwxr-x 163 user_a user_a_group 143360 Apr 29 13:29 media/ I have even setup a cron job to automate the ownership of this file to the right group to run every hour. 0 * * * * /bin/chown -R apache:apache /var/www/ourwebsite/media/ But every hour that directory keeps reverting to being owned by user_a and user_a_group. I've checked history files and crontabs for all users including root for rsync's and chowns. And I can find no evidence of what is causing this phenomenon of the directory automatically changing its' owner and group. How can I best investigate this in ways I haven't tried yet? The host in question is a CentOS 5.7 host. Thanks Tim -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com> wrote:> We have a directory that holds the media for a website. We want that > directory owned by the apache user and group. But for some reason that > directory and all it's files keep reverting to being owned by a user > account and group. > > What are the user IDs of the apache and user_a users? Are these localmounts or shares? I've seen a similar thing when there was a UID conflict.