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Subject: docs/25016: symlink(7) manpage says symlinks have no owners
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>Number:         25016
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       symlink(7) manpage says symlinks have no owners
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Feb 11 14:50:02 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Martin Kammerhofer
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Universität Graz
>Environment:
>Description:

I quote output from "man 7 symlink":

###   For example, the command ``chown -R user slink directory'' will ignore
###   ``slink'', because symbolic links in this system do not have owners.

This is obsolete. Symlinks do have owners nowadays.

>How-To-Repeat:

man 7 symlink

>Fix:

Index: symlink.7
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/bin/ln/symlink.7,v
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -r1.17 symlink.7
--- symlink.7	2001/01/24 23:49:59	1.17
+++ symlink.7	2001/02/10 14:48:41
@@ -268,10 +268,10 @@
 themselves, but otherwise the links are ignored.
 .Pp
 For example, the command
-.Dq Li "chown -R user slink directory"
+.Dq Li "chmod -R 0123 slink directory"
 will ignore
 .Dq Li slink ,
-because symbolic links in this system do not have owners.
+because symbolic links in this system do not have permissions.
 Any symbolic links encountered during the tree traversal will also be
 ignored.
 The command

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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