file zip/tar in linux at specific location - linux

I want to zip a set of directories and files on my centos 8 VM.
There are 3 directories and 1 file which I want to zip in such a way that only env.conf file will move to /etc/env.txt after unzipping it and remaining directories will be unzipped at current location.
Is there any way to achieve this.
drwxr-xr-x. 9 root root 114 Feb 25 12:40 config
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 340 Feb 25 09:01 env.conf
drwxr-xr-x. 9 root root 4096 Feb 28 05:11 platform
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 135 Feb 28 07:49 install

I don't think this is possible. in fact this is considered a vulnerability if you could do that.
Imagine you download a zip file from some website. and after you unzip it in a temp folder. It registers itself as a service by writing a file in /etc somewhere, and gets control over your pc.
Example: zip-slip
You could however create a one-liner that extracts and moves the file wherever you want like this:
unzip <filename> && mv env.conf /etc/env.txt

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Script that calls another script to execute on every file in a directory

There are two directories that contains these files:
First one /usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts
[root#localhost hosts]$ ll
total 12
-rw-rw-r-- 1 apache nagios 1236 Feb 7 10:10 10.80.12.53.cfg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 apache nagios 1064 Feb 27 22:47 10.80.12.62.cfg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 apache nagios 1063 Feb 22 12:02 localhost.cfg
And the second one /usr/local/nagios/etc/services
[root#localhost services]$ ll
total 20
-rw-rw-r-- 1 apache nagios 2183 Feb 27 22:48 10.80.12.62.cfg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 apache nagios 1339 Feb 13 10:47 Check usage _etc.cfg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 apache nagios 7874 Feb 22 11:59 localhost.cfg
And I have a script that goes through file in Hosts directory and paste some lines from that file in the file in the Services directory.
The script is ran like this:
./nagios-contacts.sh /usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts/10.80.12.62.cfg /usr/local/nagios/etc/services/10.80.12.62.cfg
How can I achieve that another script calls my script and goes through every file in the Hosts directory and does its job for the files with the same name in the Service directory?
In my script I´m pulling out contacts from the 10.80.12.62.cfg in the Hosts directory and appending them to the file with the same name in the Service directory.
Don't use ls output as an input to for loop instead use the built-in wild-cards. See why it's not a good idea.
for f in /usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts/*.cfg
do
basef=$(basename "$f")
./nagios-contacts.sh "$f" "/usr/local/nagios/etc/services/${basef}"
done
It sounds like you just need to do some iteration.
echo $(pwd)
for file in $(ls); do ./nagious-contacts.sh $file; done;
So it will loop over all files in the current directory.
You can also modify it as well by doing something more absolute.
abspath=$1
for file in $(ls $abspath); do ./nagious-contacts.sh $abspath/$file; done
which would loop over all files in a set directory, and then pass the abspath/filename into your script.

permission denied when renaming file in linux at /var/www/html

I am very new to linux and am using putty and pscp to move files to a live hosted directory. I would like to rename my recently uploaded dist folder to its actual project name using mv but get a permission denied error. What is the safest and most reasonable way to arrange these files so I can rename them?
lawton#lawtonb:/var/www/html$ ls -la
total 268
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 30 16:42 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 18 23:05 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lawton lawton 253276 Aug 27 18:06 bundle.js
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 30 16:42 dist
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17 Aug 18 23:24 info.php
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 18:59 react-youtube
lawton#lawtonb:/var/www/html$ mv dist BTC_Sorter
mv: cannot move 'dist' to 'BTC_Sorter': Permission denied
If this is a one-time rename, your best course of action would be to run mv with sudo, like this:
sudo mv dist BTC_Sorter
If, however, you'd like to have permissions for your user or group, you should do some reading about chown (The link belongs to the Arch Linux wiki, but should be useful regardless of your distro).
In your particular case, the directory dist is owned both by the user and the group root, hence why you'd need to use sudo, chown or simply the root account.
You are not the owner of the file, you need execute the command with sudo
sudo mv src dest

apache permission error

I have centos in VMware and hosted a web application.
This is the url I try to access my page. There is also another demo page "demo.php" that I create for test. its fine can access and prints contents: "its ok." but when I try to my app page which in same directory the browser says:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /WP/View/Home/localobjects.php on this server.
http://192.168.118.129/WP/View/Home/localobjects.php
How can I fix this?
Files Permissions in directory.
-rw-r--rwx. 1 root root 272 Apr 2 00:49 activedirectoryusers.php
-rw-r--rwx. 1 root root 236 Apr 17 01:22 configuration.php
-rw-r--rwx. 1 root root 324 Mar 30 00:59 dashboard.php
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 107 Apr 15 08:28 deneme.php
drwxr-xrwx. 2 root root 4096 Apr 17 01:22 Ipageimplementations
-rw-r--rwx. 1 root root 257 Apr 17 00:52 localobjects.php
-rw-r--rwx. 1 root root 224 Mar 28 18:41 policy.php
-rw-r--rwx. 1 root root 257 Apr 13 01:58 timeintervals.php
Here is a cheatsheet…
Directories must have the permissions "drwxr-xr-x".
You set them with chmod 755 [directory name].
Files must have the permissions "-rw-r--r--".
You set them with chmod 644 *php for all the php files in a folder. If you have other files which must be seen on the web (.css, etc.) chmod them accordingly.
To get the "magic numbers" you have three digits:
the first one is for the owner
the second one is for the owner's group
the third is for the rest of the world
Numbers are the sum of:
4: readable
2: writeable
1: executable
In doubt, make a directory at a time: if you give wrong permissions (not executable, like files) to a folder you can't browse it.

anacron script in cron.daily not running via symlink

What can I do to make this script run daily?
If I manually run the script, it works. I can see that it did what it's supposed to do. (backup files) However, it will not run as a cron.daily script. I've let it go for days without touching it -- and it never runs.
The actual script is here /var/www/myapp/backup.sh
There is a symlink to it here /etc/cron.daily/myapp_backup.sh -> /var/www/myapp/backup.sh
The cron log at /var/log/cron shows anacron running this script:
Aug 19 03:09:01 ip-123-456-78-90 anacron[31537]: Job `cron.daily' started
Aug 19 03:09:01 ip-123-456-78-90 run-parts(/etc/cron.daily)[31545]: starting myapp_backup.sh
Aug 19 03:09:01 ip-123-456-78-90 run-parts(/etc/cron.daily)[31559]: finished myapp_backup.sh
Yet there is no evidence that the script actually did anything.
Here is the security info on these files:
ls -la /var/cron.daily
<snip>
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Aug 12 21:18 myapp_backup.sh -> /var/www/myapp/backup.sh
</snip>
ls -la /var/www/myapp
<snip>
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 13:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Jul 12 01:00 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 407 Aug 12 23:37 backup.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33 Aug 12 21:13 list.txt
</snip>
The file called list.txt is used by backup.sh.
The script just runs tar to create an archive.
From the cron manpage of a debian/ubuntu system:
the files under these directories have to be pass some sanity checks including the following: be executable, be owned by root, not be writable by group or other and, if symlinks, point to files owned by root. Additionally, the file names must conform to the filename requirements of run-parts: they must be entirely made up of letters, digits and can only contain the special signs underscores ('_') and hyphens ('-'). Any file that does not conform to these requirements will not be executed by run-parts. For example, any file containing dots will be ignored.
So:
file need to be owned by root
if symlink, the source file need to be owned by root
if symlink, the link name should NOT contain dots
I had a similar situation with cron.hourly and awstats processing.
I THINK it is related to SELinux and anacron not having the same powers/permissions as cron.
The ACTUAL solution defeated me (so far).
MY WORKAROUND SOLUTION: Run the job via root's cron entries (crontab -e ) and simply schedule it hourly.

Crontab isn't running

My crontab isn't running and I'm trying to figure out why. I've created a symbolic link within /etc/cron.d to /var/www/mysite.crontab
user#ip-xxxxxxxxxx:/etc/cron.d$ ll
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 11 03:48 ./
drwxr-xr-x 96 root root 4096 Apr 16 00:50 ../
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Apr 11 03:47 mysite.crontab -> /var/www/mysite.crontab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 124 Feb 27 2012 drupal7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 544 Sep 12 2012 php5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 102 Apr 2 2012 .placeholder
The actual cron file is...
#Purge old deals
4 1 * * * www-data wget -q -O- http://www.mysite.com/cron/clean > /dev/null 2>&1;
Oddly enough the problem is with the name of the file. You are not permitted to use a . as a part of the name of the file when present in the /etc/cron.d dirctory.
The logic for this is in the database.c file, in the function valid_name. Renaming the file to something like mysite_crontab should fix the issue.
In general, the filename should probably just be a simple name mysite the fact that it's in this directory implies that it's a cron file already.
The file that is being pointed to must be owned by root, this is stated in the man page for the support of the /etc/cron.d directory:
Support for /etc/cron.d is included in the cron daemon itself, which handles this location as the system-wide crontab spool. This directory can contain any file defining tasks following the format used in /etc/crontab, i.e. unlike the user cron spool, these files must provide the username to run the task as in the task definition.
Files in this directory have to be owned by root, do not need to be executable (they are configuration files, just like /etc/crontab) and must conform to the same naming convention as used by run-parts(8): they must consist solely of upper- and lower-case letters, digits, underscores, and hyphens. This means that they cannot contain any dots. If the -l option is specified to cron (this option can be setup through /etc/default/cron, see below), then they must conform to the LSB namespace specification, exactly as in the --lsbsysinit option in run-parts.
The intended purpose of this feature is to allow packages that require finer control of their scheduling than the /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} directories to add a crontab file to /etc/cron.d. Such files should be named after the package that supplies them.

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