From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 22 20:53:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15BE216A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 20:53:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from svr38.ehostpros.com (svr38.ehostpros.com [66.98.148.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA30F43D41 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 20:53:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vijay@ehostpros.com) Received: from [202.53.76.19] (helo=[12.0.0.7]) by svr38.ehostpros.com with asmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1BGrl9-0007D5-4T for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 20:53:51 -0700 From: Vijay To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <40888E41.1040700@verizon.net> References: <40888E41.1040700@verizon.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: eHostPros.com WebHosting Message-Id: <1082692451.57922.11.camel@neo.vijaykiran.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:24:12 +0530 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr38.ehostpros.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - ehostpros.com Subject: Re: chflags understanding X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 03:53:47 -0000 On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 09:02, Alden Louis-Pierre wrote: > I'm looking through the Handbook to learn how to secure my FreeBSD > 4.9 system. While reading 10.2( > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security-intro.html > ) it makes reference to the chflags command. > Is there a difference between "chflags -R schg /sbin *" and "chflags > schg /sbin *"? The '-R' flag sets all the files in the /sbin including any files under the /sbin directory tree. Without it it will affect only the files under /sbin > > Thank You > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >