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Probably isn't the answer you are looking for but if somebody is doing things such as touching lock files for your network monitoring script you should probably know about it anyway :) As far as I am concernced if the box you are using as a network monitoring station has malicious users on it you have bigger problems. If the file is there and isn't owned by you have it e-mail you...
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RE: Re: lock files vs. non-predictable file names
by RuphSkunk (Acolyte) on Aug 26, 2000 at 06:34 UTC
    That's a very good point. Since most of the boxen I use are "open", I'd like to make my scripts user proof...to prevent them from being a sort of "attractive nusance". But I should certainly gather the info if a user does manage to impair the function of an admin script. I think in its current form I will be sent email from cron if something fails, but I might add something in the script to send info on directory/file ownership if it fails.