Re: How to change users rights for a symboliked file.
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 and group but i can't that. chmod 777 tmp2 ls -l tmp2 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14 Dec 21 10:12 tmp - /var/tmp Why don't I able to change user rights of tmp2 ? I think you need the -h option to chmod. From the man page: -- /Xian Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens Jimi Hendrix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to change users rights for a symboliked file.
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to change users rights for a symboliked file.
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 wheel 14 Dec 21 10:12 tmp - /var/tmp Why don't I able to change user rights of tmp2 ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
