From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 6 2:52:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6105437B419; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 02:52:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 10:52:44 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 16Bw7k-0006xa-00; Thu, 06 Dec 2001 10:51:28 +0000 Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 10:51:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: George Reid , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Modifying only certain bits with chmod In-Reply-To: <009101c17c12$649fe2e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > I ended up modifying the command, which was easier (for me) than memorizing the > symbolic syntax. ... > So ... what's the safest way to make this my system-wide command > without interfering with the standard chmod source and stuff? I > guess I could just copy the modified binary over to bin, no? What > do most people do when they develop their own local custom versions > of a command? Minimum impact: stick it in /usr/local/bin and ensure that that directory comes before /bin on your path. > I'm tempted to modify my own man page to reflect the change, but > looking at the chmod.1 file, it seems pretty scary. It's just HTML without angle brackets. jan -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Boycott Arabic numerals! What have they ever done for us? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message