File not found in Linux while the file is there - linux

Aim is to run the file sendData.c with passing argument. But it shows file not found while it is already there. Let me know where it is going wrong.
root#OpenWrt:/tmp/sendData# ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75 Dec 19 07:02 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5627 Dec 18 07:33 sendData.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13162 Dec 18 07:33 send_Data
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10744 Dec 20 07:46 send_Data_loop
root#OpenWrt:/tmp/sendData# ./sendData wlan0 E8:DE:27:C3:E6:07
-ash: ./sendData: not found

The file you want to use is called differently
# ./send_Data wlan0 E8:DE:27:C3:E6:07
I think you have a confusing naming scheme, because your .c file is named without and underscore

SOLVED
Did not execute the "make" for which the sendData file was not generated in the first place.

Firstly, make your file executable:
chmod +x <filename> and run command again.

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file zip/tar in linux at specific location

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

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

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.

scp file not setting correct owner

Does SCP have a problem setting file permissions or have I misconfiguration my server?
Use case:
There is a file on a server that I want to edit called "importantFile.txt". The file has owner and group of "master":
ls -l importantFile.txt:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 master master 7 Mar 18 08:11 importantFile.txt
I am called "slave" but luckily, I am in group "master" so I can edit the file as I see fit. However, I'm a lazy slave and can't be bothered to edit the file on the server, I'd prefer to edit the file on my local machine and SCP it to the server:
echo "bored slave info" > importantFile.txt
scp importantFile.txt slave#theServerAddress:/pathToFile/importantFile.txt
If I do this, the contents of the file on the server are uploaded fine and the timestamp of the file is updated but the permissions of the file don't change, the file is still owned by "master". This is a problem because if "slave" uploaded bad content, no one would know it was "slave" who caused the problem, "master" would look guilty.
Perhaps I have to set a umask? if so where? I tried .bash_profile without success and haven't found anything on Google about umask in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
That's nothing special about scp - try logging on to the server as slave, and editing the file using your favourite text editor... You'll find the same behaviour occurs... Writing to a file does not make you the owner of the file.
Example:
as root
#cd /tmp
#mkdir fubar
#chgrp vboxusers fubar
#cd fubar/
#touch testfile
#chgrp vboxusers testfile
#chmod g+w . testfile
#ls -al
total 16
drwxrwxr-x 2 root vboxusers 4096 2009-03-19 10:30 .
drwxrwxrwt 15 root root 12288 2009-03-19 10:29 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root vboxusers 0 2009-03-19 10:30 testfile
#echo foo > testfile
#ls -al
total 20
drwxrwxr-x 2 root vboxusers 4096 2009-03-19 10:30 .
drwxrwxrwt 15 root root 12288 2009-03-19 10:29 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root vboxusers 4 2009-03-19 10:30 testfile
as user (in vboxusers group)
>cd /tmp/fubar
>ls -al
total 20
drwxrwxr-x 2 root vboxusers 4096 2009-03-19 10:30 .
drwxrwxrwt 15 root root 12288 2009-03-19 10:29 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root vboxusers 4 2009-03-19 10:30 testfile
>echo bar >> testfile
>ls -al
total 20
drwxrwxr-x 2 root vboxusers 4096 2009-03-19 10:30 .
drwxrwxrwt 15 root root 12288 2009-03-19 10:29 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root vboxusers 8 2009-03-19 10:31 testfile
>vim testfile
>ls -al
total 20
drwxrwxr-x 2 root vboxusers 4096 2009-03-19 10:31 .
drwxrwxrwt 15 root root 12288 2009-03-19 10:31 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root vboxusers 12 2009-03-19 10:31 testfile
>cat testfile
foo
bar
baz
You have to delete the file to overwrite it. Wether you are able to do that depends on the directory's permissions and ownership. Hijacking ownership of an already existing file is not possible. The write permission you have is only applied on the contents of the file.
It seems you can configure how Emacs deals with this through the backup-by-copying-when-mismatch variable (see the Emacs Manual or type C-h-v backup-by-copying-when-mismatch in Emacs).
I actually filed a bug report about this, because I thought it was a bug in Tramp.
I had misunderstood the way files work, modifying file contents do not change ownership or group.
Why the confusion? EMACS - Whenever I was editing a file I was using Emacs and Emacs does change the owner and group to the current user. It does this because it makes a backup file at save time by moving the "filename" to "filename~" and creating a new file called "filename" - because it's a new file, it has the current users file permissions. I guess this is 1up to VI fans?

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