From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 6 6:41: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.cz (diana.mobil.cz [195.39.16.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03EE637B405 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 06:40:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from ester.mobil.cz (ester.mobil.cz [194.213.62.23]) by mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fB6EetC13625; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:40:55 +0100 Received: from roman.mobil.cz ([10.2.0.89]) by ester.mobil.cz (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.7) with ESMTP id 2001120615395858:10972 ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:39:58 +0100 Received: (from roman@localhost) by roman.mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB6El5x09546; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:47:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from neuhauser@mobil.cz) X-Authentication-Warning: roman.mobil.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@mobil.cz using -f Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:47:04 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Modifying only certain bits with chmod Message-ID: <20011206154704.E97283@roman.mobil.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Cliff Sarginson , FreeBSD Questions References: <20011206122233.GB1111@raggedclown.net> <20011206132237.GB9605@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011206132237.GB9605@raggedclown.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 12/06/2001 03:39:58 PM, Serialize by Router on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 12/06/2001 03:40:27 PM, Serialize complete at 12/06/2001 03:40:27 PM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 > Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:22:37 +0100 > From: Cliff Sarginson > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: Modifying only certain bits with chmod > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:39:54PM +0000, Jan Grant wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:51:28AM +0000, Jan Grant wrote: > > > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > > > > > > > It's _got_ another name; it's called "/usr/local/bin/chmod". If you're > > running any scripts that don't sanitise their PATH first, then they are > > broken and need fixing. > > > Possibly, but that is not the real world. > If Mr Atkielski's change is genuinely compatible with existing chmod, > and has been tested even under the most pathological situations, then > he should submit it as a PR or whatever as an improved version. > > On the other hand, it is his system and he can do what he likes :) > > As a matter of fact I use octal masks rather than symbolic arguments, > but that is because I am so old I can remember using Unix before > such fripperies were invented. I would harldy imagine many younger > users are thinking octal these days..all they know about is this > new fangled hexadecimal nonsense .. :) I'm not that old, have been using FreeBSD for a couple of months only, and yet I terribly miss an option that would make ls(1) display perms in octal. -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 3:42PM up 44 days, 2:25, 7 users, load averages: 0.05, 0.04, 0.06 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message