On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 03:11:18AM -0500, David Banning typed: > I have these links from my web directory; > > root# cd /usr/local/www/data/fax/ > root# ls -l > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18 Mar 29 16:37 chantelle -> /usr/chantelle/fax > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 14 Mar 10 00:15 david -> /usr/david/fax > > I can't change the permissions on them. It's because the permissions > are dependent on the linked directory right? Doesn't seem so;
Permissions on symbolic links are irrelevant. If you want to change them anyway, here's what you have to do: # cd /usr/local/www/data/fax/ # rm chantelle # umask 0 # ln -s /usr/chantelle/fax chantelle Don't forget to change your umask back to something reasonable afterwards. > > root# ls -ld /usr/chantelle/fax > drwxrwxrwx 2 chantelle wheel 512 Mar 30 02:26 /usr/chantelle/fax > root# ls -ld /usr/david/fax > drwxrwxrwx 2 david wheel 512 Mar 30 02:40 /usr/david/fax > root# > > Even going further upstream doesn't show anything; > > root# ls -ld /usr/chantelle > drwxr-xr-x 7 chantelle wheel 1024 Mar 29 23:13 /usr/chantelle > root# ls -ld /usr/david > drwxr-xr-x 68 david wheel 5632 Mar 29 22:23 /usr/david > > I am having a problem writing to the top dir shown, (chantelle) > but not the following one (david). > > Anyone understand this? > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
