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Date:      Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:49:49 +0200
From:      Ruben de Groot <fbsd-q@bzerk.org>
To:        Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
Cc:        Alexander V Zubchenko <stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Change modes of a symbolic link?
Message-ID:  <20020621164949.A28975@ei.bzerk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020621161129.C61592-100000@small.pukruppa.de>; from root@pukruppa.de on Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 04:14:56PM %2B0000
References:  <20020621104005.C21649-100000@server.hermes-comp.zp.ua> <20020621161129.C61592-100000@small.pukruppa.de>

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On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 04:14:56PM +0000, Peter Ulrich Kruppa typed:
> On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Alexander V Zubchenko wrote:
> 
> > Greetings!
> >
> > On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I would like to set a symbolic link to lrwxrwxrwx
> > > - the way /home is set.
> > > How do I do this?

As mentioned before, symbolic links don't have modes since they're 
merely entries in a directory table.
If you want a symlink to look like lrwxrwxrwx when you do an ls -l
for some reason you can change your umask to 000 before you create
it.
This will have no effect on your system's behaviour though.


> > >
> > > Of course I read
> > > # man chmod
> > > but I don't understand it :-(
> > Citate:
> > "Symbolic links do not have modes, so unless the -H or -L option is
> > set, chmod on a symbolic link always succeed and has no effect. The
> > -H, -L and -P options are ignored unless the -R option is specified."
> As I told you I read this passage and didn't understand it.
> I tried all sorts of
> # chmod -R -H 777 ... ...
> and checked the rights with
> # ls -l
> but nothing changed.
> 
> Could you please give me an example?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Uli.
> 
> >
> > >
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