Check age of oldest file in directory ... But no other access

Asked Oct 16 '17 at 14:01

Active Oct 18 '17 at 12:48

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There are roughly 30 users and 30 directories with this structure:

/home/user1/input/
/home/user2/input/
/home/user3/input/
/home/user4/input/
...

A check should monitor the directories.

If the oldest file in a directory is older than 5 hours, then the check should return 1 (WARNING).

The check does not run as superuser.

How to give the script the permission to check these directories and nothing else?

We use OpenSuse 42.1

There is a follow up question, how to solve this with SaltStack: SaltStack: Change linux ACLs for /home/*/input/

edited Oct 18 '17 at 12:48

asked Oct 16 '17 at 14:01

guettli

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Sounds like a exam question. – Matthew Ife Oct 16 '17 at 14:03
@MatthewIfe yes, you are right. But it is not an exam. It is a real live question. – guettli Oct 17 '17 at 06:32
Your operating system is what? If non-standard facl is the solution, it might not be portable. – John Mahowald Oct 17 '17 at 13:29
@JohnMahowald thank you for your interest. I checked the system Yes, setfacl is available. – guettli Oct 18 '17 at 12:02

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