From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 30 00:11:34 2003 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 7FB3A37B401 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 00:11:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.clubplus.net (mail.clubplus.net [216.191.22.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB5F54402A for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 00:11:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: from skytrackercanada.com (3s1.com [209.188.66.29]) by mail.clubplus.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2U8D1Da022213 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 03:13:01 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h2U8BJoW005191 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 03:11:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: from skytrackercanada.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2U8BI18005165 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 03:11:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: (from david@localhost) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h2U8BIGp005164 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 03:11:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 03:11:18 -0500 From: David Banning To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030330031118.A5033@skytrackercanada.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.3 - (http://pldaniels.com/inflex/) X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.2(snapshot 20021217) (mail) Subject: file permission baffle 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: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 08:11:37 -0000 I have these links from my web directory; root# cd /usr/local/www/data/fax/ root# ls -l lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18 Mar 29 16:37 chantelle -> /usr/chantelle/fax lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 14 Mar 10 00:15 david -> /usr/david/fax I can't change the permissions on them. It's because the permissions are dependent on the linked directory right? Doesn't seem so; root# ls -ld /usr/chantelle/fax drwxrwxrwx 2 chantelle wheel 512 Mar 30 02:26 /usr/chantelle/fax root# ls -ld /usr/david/fax drwxrwxrwx 2 david wheel 512 Mar 30 02:40 /usr/david/fax root# Even going further upstream doesn't show anything; root# ls -ld /usr/chantelle drwxr-xr-x 7 chantelle wheel 1024 Mar 29 23:13 /usr/chantelle root# ls -ld /usr/david drwxr-xr-x 68 david wheel 5632 Mar 29 22:23 /usr/david I am having a problem writing to the top dir shown, (chantelle) but not the following one (david). Anyone understand this?