man chmod
[...]
chmod never changes the permissions of symbolic
links; the
chmod system call cannot change their permissions.
This
is not a problem since the permissions of symbolic
links
are never used. However, for each symbolic link
listed on
the command line, chmod changes the
i am confused as to why a chgrp command on a symbolic link will change the
group of the link and not the target but a chmod command on the link will
change the mode of the target and leave the link alone, i'm sure this isn't
what i should expect but this seems so basic that i can't believe i
