From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 29 20: 6:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt014n8c.san.rr.com (dt011n66.san.rr.com [204.210.13.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D68C115267 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:06:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt014n8c.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA36686; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:06:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37F2D3B8.7ABB62D1@gorean.org> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:06:32 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0927 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: G.P@chatcity.de Subject: Re: symlink with mode References: <199909292313.BAA01323@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Of course the mode is inaccessible by chmod. > > chmod -H (see ``man chmod''). That changes the file referenced by the link, not the link itself. In freebsd there is no way (that I know of) to change the perms on the link, only the ownership. On solaris you can do chmod -h to change the perms on the link. Hacking that into our chmod is pretty far down on my list of things to do. Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message