Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 10:52:04 -0600 From: Sean Page <Sean.Page@epsb.ca> To: "'Matthew Seaman'" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: No nonodump... Message-ID: <DF09779544EFD511A17D0002A587F9D305AA689E@EXCHANGE07>
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Hrm, strange. My man page for chflags is as follows:
The flags are specified as an octal number or a comma separated list of
keywords. The following keywords are currently defined:
arch set the archived flag (super-user only)
opaque set the opaque flag (owner or super-user only)
nodump set the nodump flag (owner or super-user only)
sappnd set the system append-only flag (super-user only)
schg set the system immutable flag (super-user only)
sunlnk set the system undeletable flag (super-user only)
uappnd set the user append-only flag (owner or super-user only)
uchg set the user immutable flag (owner or super-user only)
uunlnk set the user undeletable flag (owner or super-user only)
archived, sappend, schange, simmutable, uappend, uchange,
uimmutable, sunlink, uunlink
aliases for the above
Putting the letters ``no'' before an option causes the flag to be
turned
off. For example:
nouchg the immutable bit should be cleared
A little misleading I would say. At any rate, 'chflags dump' did indeed
remove the flag in question.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Sean.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk]
Sent: September 8, 2003 10:22 AM
To: Sean Page
Cc: stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: No nonodump...
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:57:24AM -0600, Sean Page wrote:
> I'm not sure where else to ask about this, so please excuse me if this
> is the wrong forum. In trying to remove a 'nodump' flag on a directory
> with the 'chflags' command I have noticed that the 'nonodump' flag
> does not function. I see an open PR for the problem: o [2003/01/09]
> i386/46912 johan chflags nonodump fails I was wondering when this
> might be dealt with? Else is there another way to remove the flag?
As the chflags(1) man page states, the opposite of 'nodump' is 'dump':
Putting the letters ``no'' before or removing the letters ``no'' from a
keyword causes the flag to be cleared. For example:
nouchg clear the user immutable flag (owner or super-user only)
dump clear the nodump flag (owner or super-user only)
Or, if you want to clear all flags from a file you can:
% chflags 0 file
Cheers,
Matthew
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