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Subject: Re: issue with unsetting 'arch' flag
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On Wednesday 06 October 2010 00:50:54 Alexander Best wrote:

> `touch ftest && chflags arch ftest && chflags -vv 0 ftest`.
>  ^^non-root     ^^root                ^^non-root
> 
> chflags claims to have cleared the 'arch' flag (which should be impossible
> as non-root user), but indeed has done nothing.

I guess that should be "sudo chflags arch ftest"?

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Bruce Cran