From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 3 20:46:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F50E16A425 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 20:46:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from user@dhp.com) Received: from shell.dhp.com (shell.dhp.com [199.245.105.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE32443D8A for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 20:46:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from user@dhp.com) Received: by shell.dhp.com (Postfix, from userid 896) id 7222931309; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:46:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:46:06 -0500 (EST) From: user To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: permissions for .snap directories - contradictory man page ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 20:46:20 -0000 I am using a 6.0-RELEASE system. On that system, the man page for dump states: This problem can be corrected by creating a .snap directory in the root of the file system to be dumped; its owner should be ``root'', its group should be ``operator'',and its mode should be ``0770''. However, I note that system install produced these .snap directories, by default, in the roots of my partitions: 2 drwxrwxr-x 2 root operator 512 Nov 30 03:27 .snap Is the man page wrong, or should I alter these permissions for my .snap dirs ? thanks.