Writer instructions

Page title

For most spaces, this page must be titled Space announcements.

For spaces with localized content, this page must be titled Space announcements l10n.

Purpose

Provide an announcement banner on every page of your space.

Location

Move this page outside of your home branch.

Guidelines

Announcement Support for this product will end on November 3, 2025. We recommend that you use PATROL for Linux, PATROL for AIX, or PATROL for Solaris to monitor operating systems.

Viewing Files with Global Write Privileges


This task describes how to view all files that can be written to by any user on the system.

Before you begin

To perform this task, you must provide a user account and password. It does not have to be the root account.

To View a List of Files that Any User Can Write To

  1. Access the SECURITY application menu as described in Accessing KM Commands and InfoBoxes.
  2. Select Administration > List Files With Global Write. BMC PATROL prompts you for a user account and password.
  3. Type the appropriate user name and password and click OK. BMC PATROL writes the results to a BMC PATROL task object (List Files with Global Write) in the UNIX OS container.
  4. Access the List Files with Global Write task object as described in Accessing KM Commands and InfoBoxes and view the results. Your results should resemble this example:
# PSL Serial No.: #########

/usr/openwin/lib/locale/libs
/var/ntb/tmp
/var/ntb/appcnfg/appmngr/System_Admin
/etc/PERL
/dev/stty

Output Format

The output has the following format. Following table describes each field.

directory/filename
-------------------- >>>>> DONE <<<<< --------------------

List Files With Global Write Command Output Format

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