Directory and file permissions on UNIX

We have an external task being called from Workflow. The external task is a java program which creates directories/subdirectories and files under it.

The directory is getting created with permission 600 (rw-------). As there is no execute permission, the process is not able to create subdirectories and the task fails.

The same java code called from the ipl script creates the correct permissions i.e 644 permission for files and 755 for directories.

Seems like workflow is overwriting the default unix permissions.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Edited by conmgmt on 10/25/02 03:10 PM (server time).

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Migrateduser

Workflow doesn't "overwrite" anything when it comes to directory permissions. I'd suspect instead that whatever UNIX shell is running your externaltask has a different umask setting than the interactive shell does.

Does your Java code explicitly set the new directory permissions? Or are you leaving them default?

bw

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Bob

No UNIX shell runs the externaltask. It is spawned from iwserver, which typically is not running in a shell. iwserver probably sets its umask pretty securely, and I guess when it forks the externaltask, the umask remains. Just a guess.

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Migrateduser

When my externaltasks create files that have those very strict permissions (600), I insert a chmod into my script to set the permissions however I like. But that's with perl....is there a similar command for Java to set file permissions?

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Migrateduser

Hmmm, thanks Evers. However, the java prog should still be able to chmod the directory right after it's created, yes? If this was added to the java program, they should be able to set the permission explicitly.

bw

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Migrateduser

I think in Java you'd just call Runtime.exec("chmod ...");

If there's a cool Java-esque way of setting permissions, I don't know it.

bw

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