I am experiencing something strange. Ever since our site was
installed I had the configure.php permissions set to 644.
Everything worked fine. No warning messages that the permissions
needed to be changed. However, the web hosting service
recently made several changes to the PHP configuration and
I started getting a warning message that the configure file
permissions needed to be set to 644 or 444. So, I changed the
permissions to 444. The warning went away. GREAT!
HOWEVER, the next day the warning message was back and when
I looked at the file permissions they were back to 644. How can
that happen? We are being hosted on a Linus server. The PHP
version is 5.2.11. We are running Zen Cart 1.3.8a . The site
owner does not want to upgrade to 1.3.9 at this time.

Is there anything in the Zen Cart code that could be changing the
permissions back to 644 ?