Hi Marcus, [redirecting to misc@, this is not a bug and all is working as intended]
By the time your recursive chflags gets to pkg_add, it will already have the flag. Note that these flags are per inode, and several files under /usr/sbin have the same inode: [weerd@despair] $ cd /usr/sbin; ls -li | grep 134232 134232 -r-xr-xr-x 7 root bin 1473 Oct 27 03:48 fw_update 134232 -r-xr-xr-x 7 root bin 1473 Oct 27 03:48 pkg_add 134232 -r-xr-xr-x 7 root bin 1473 Oct 27 03:48 pkg_check 134232 -r-xr-xr-x 7 root bin 1473 Oct 27 03:48 pkg_create 134232 -r-xr-xr-x 7 root bin 1473 Oct 27 03:48 pkg_delete 134232 -r-xr-xr-x 7 root bin 1473 Oct 27 03:48 pkg_info 134232 -r-xr-xr-x 7 root bin 1473 Oct 27 03:48 pkg_sign The recursive operation doesn't pay attention to this implementation detail, so it first runs chflags against fw_update. Then when it finds pkg_add, it'll try to run chflags against it, but now it already has the flag, so it gives you an error. You will probably have seen multiple errors while running your recursive chflags operation. Same deal there. Note that running chflags on files in your /usr/sbin directory will be a problem come upgrade time. You'll need to remove the flag before you can upgrade. Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 12:46:43PM +0000, Marcus Pedersén wrote: | Hi, | | OpenBSD 6.4 | | I have a strange behavior on chflags. | | If I run: | | chflags schg /usr/sbin/pkg_add | | This works fine and the schg flag is set. | | | But if I run it recusively, as in: | | chflags -R schg /usr/sbin/ | | I get the following error on pkg_add and a number of other files: | | chflags: /usr/sbin/pkg_add: Operation is not permitted | | | Still the schg flag is set. | | | How come I get an error when running recurively but not when I run it on the same single file? | | | I hope this will help you and if I have posted to the wrong address I apologize!! | | Please, tell me where to post this if it is wrong! | | | Best regards | | Marcus Pedersén | | --- | När du skickar e-post till SLU så innebär detta att SLU behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur detta går till, klicka här <https://www.slu.se/om-slu/kontakta-slu/personuppgifter/> | E-mailing SLU will result in SLU processing your personal data. For more information on how this is done, click here <https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/contact-slu/personal-data/> -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/
