Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 13:12:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: weird filesystem state (cannot remove files) Message-ID: <199506261112.NAA22961@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199506260842.SAA15694@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jun 26, 95 06:12:05 pm
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As Michael Smith wrote: > > > Si, seņor. Make install sets the immutable flag. :-] (That's why > > i'm never using it, caused me some flamage in Usenet...) > > man chflags. chflags is your friend; wonderful way to create a > write-only .history file for PA sites with stupid users. Of course. But i'm simply too lazy to run chflags all over the day, and the stupid ``just backup the old kernel to /kernel.old'' approach is often too unflexible for me. I used to have several different kernels lying around while developing some device driver etc., and there's absolutely no need to save a kernel that just proved to be broken (and thereby destroying the valuable /kernel.old!), so i'm normally clobbering such kernels, even if it's the currently running one. Anyway i realize, the ``make install'' approach including the immutable flag is a Good Thing (tm) for the casual user. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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