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Dropbox permissions
I recently installed dropbox and crashplan on my readynas and am getting ready to phase out an old server but I am having trouble with the dropbox permissions. I followed the dropbox instructions her...
Well, talking to support and thus far the solution is:
$ crontab -e
# m h dom mon dow command
* 5 * * * /bin/chown -hR nobody:nogroup /c/dropbox/Dropbox
* 5 * * * /bin/chmod -R 755 /c/dropbox/Dropbox
:w then :q
The smarter alternative is to set the umask settings in /etc/profile using vim but I see a default set of 022 and am not sure which users this is for. I would like to only set the dropbox-cron user to 755. This cron basically resets the permissions and owner on dropbox once a day and is so far working but clumsy at best.
$ crontab -e
# m h dom mon dow command
* 5 * * * /bin/chown -hR nobody:nogroup /c/dropbox/Dropbox
* 5 * * * /bin/chmod -R 755 /c/dropbox/Dropbox
:w then :q
The smarter alternative is to set the umask settings in /etc/profile using vim but I see a default set of 022 and am not sure which users this is for. I would like to only set the dropbox-cron user to 755. This cron basically resets the permissions and owner on dropbox once a day and is so far working but clumsy at best.
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