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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:14:56 +0000 (GMT)
From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
To: Alexander V Zubchenko <stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Change modes of a symbolic link?
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On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Alexander V Zubchenko wrote:

> 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."
As I told you I read this passage and didn't understand it.
I tried all sorts of
# chmod -R -H 777 ... ...
and checked the rights with
# ls -l
but nothing changed.

Could you please give me an example?

Thanks,

Uli.

>
> >
> > *-----------------------------------*
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>
> Alexander V Zubchenko,		E-Mail: stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua
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>

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