Re: How to change users rights for a symboliked file.

2006-12-22 Thread Xian
I mean to say from the man page: -h If the file is a symbolic link, change the mode of the link itself rather than the file that the link points to. -- /Xian "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." Albert Einstein _

Re: How to change users rights for a symboliked file.

2006-12-22 Thread Xian
On Thursday 21 December 2006 10:16, Halid Faith wrote: > I use Freebsd6.1. > > I want to give a symbolic link for a directory with ln -s as below; > > > cd / > > ln -s /var/tmp/ tmp2 > > ls -l /var/tmp > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14 Dec 21 10:12 tmp -> /var/tmp > > I change write of user an

How to change users rights for a symboliked file.

2006-12-21 Thread Halid Faith
I use Freebsd6.1. I want to give a symbolic link for a directory with ln -s as below; cd / ln -s /var/tmp/ tmp2 ls -l /var/tmp lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14 Dec 21 10:12 tmp -> /var/tmp I change write of user and group but i can't that. chmod 777 tmp2 ls -l tmp2 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root