Randy Kramer wrote: > > J. Craig Woods -- (is there a short form of your name that you use?) -- > I'm not sure if I know what you mean by the attribs -- I assume you mean > the -rwxrwxrwx permissions on a typical Linux file. Does this also > include the concepts of owner and group? (i.e., reiser does not support > those?) Maybe you meant the more dos like attributes, like hidden, > read-only, archive, and hidden? (I get the impression some Linux > filesystems include those attributes.) >
Randy, Short form of name=drjung File attributes are not file permissions. File permissions, as most of us know, are the means by which we can assign read, write, and execute permissions to a file. Assigning file attributes to a file will allow us to manipulate the file in other ways. For example, as the SA I might take a file that belongs to JoeUser, this is a file he can read and write to, and I might assign the "i" switch to it, "chattr -i somefile". Now this file cannot be modified or deleted. I could just as well assign the "u" switch, and now, if the file is accidentally deleted, we can undelete it. These are just some examples that jump off the top of my head. There are many uses for file attributes. man chattr man lsattr The web page sounds like a good idea, and you can use whatever little bit I know about anything. Good job, Randy, and thanks. -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration -Art is the illusion of spontaneity-
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