On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:21:47PM +0000, Smylers wrote: > $ man chattr > No manual entry for chattr > > $ man lsattr > No manual entry for lsattr > > That's on a FreeBSD server. Let's try Linux. Ah, yes: > > $ whatis chattr > chattr (1) - change file attributes on a Linux second > extended file system > > So you can make this test work even when running as root, so long as you > don't mind it now failing on Unix-like OSes that aren't Linux. I'm not > sure that's a nett win!
Well, it depends on whether the file system supports chattr... :-) The FreeBSD equivalent: $ cd /tmp/ $ date >Pie $ chflags uchg Pie $ date >Pie bash: Pie: Operation not permitted $ cd ~/test $ date >Pie $ chflags uchg Pie chflags: Pie: Operation not supported $ df . Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on nas:/data 258199522 203419366 34124196 86% /filer Nicholas Clark
