Spontaneous permission changes

[Edward]

Elmer E. Dow wrote:

> Why did the console and gui interfaces list different permissions?
> And why did ttyS1 spontaneously change permissions -- at least as
> reported by the gui?
> 
> Earlier this week I had a similar occurrence on the same machine using
> Knoppix (installed on the hard drive -- it's basically Debian unstable)
> and wvdial. I'll briefly report that, too, since there were some
> commonalities and it may give a hint as to what's going on. On boot
> cardmgr reported:
> 

<SNIP>

Just a little chime from this corner. The only time I've seen permission 
change like this is when I had exported Linux files via Samba to back 
them up.

The back up (run on Windows), somehow marked the files as being backed 
up in it's mind (modified bit or something?), but on the Linux side, the 
permissions changed, to the sort of symptoms you describe.

May or may not be relevant, but thought I'd let you know. If you're 
using samba and Windows is peering at those files that could be it?

Regards,
Ed.