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Date:      Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:42:33 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Alexander V Zubchenko <stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua>
To:        Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Change modes of a symbolic link?
Message-ID:  <20020621104005.C21649-100000@server.hermes-comp.zp.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20020621061611.N61592-100000@small.pukruppa.de>

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Greetings!

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:

>
> Hi!
>
> I would like to set a symbolic link to lrwxrwxrwx
> - the way /home is set.
> How do I do this?
>
> Of course I read
> # man chmod
> but I don't understand it :-(
Citate:
"Symbolic links do not have modes, so unless the -H or -L option is
set, chmod on a symbolic link always succeed and has no effect. The
-H, -L and -P options are ignored unless the -R option is specified."


>
> *-----------------------------------*
> *        Peter Ulrich Kruppa        *
> *          -  Wuppertal -           *
> *              Germany              *
> *-----------------------------------*


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