Marc Perkel wrote:
> I'd like to be able to run chmod on a symlink so that users can't delete  
> the symlink. Can it be done?

The permissions, owner, and group of a symlink are not significant.
They are there only because other files have them and symlinks were
fitted into the existing framework of being a file.

A symlink is simply a file in a directory.  To prevent users from
removing a file from a directory you can remove write permission from
the directory.

Bob


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