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Mandrake has a security program that resets the permissions on home directories (an much more I'm sure). cd to /etc/cron.hourly and remove the msec link. you shouldn't have any more problems with it.
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On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 07:04, Miller, John wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#730910"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>My dad is have the problem on Mandrake 8.0 where he changes to root, change the write permission on a different directory /home/john to allow him to write to it. He then does an sftp into /home/john and after a couple of file transmissions the write permission disappears and he has to go and change it again.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#730910"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Any idea why it is doing that?</FONT></FONT></I>
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