Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:55:02 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.net>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Modifying only certain bits with chmod Message-ID: <00d001c17e5d$9a93a470$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <009101c17c12$649fe2e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <Pine.GSO.4.31.0112061049360.6883-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <20011206122233.GB1111@raggedclown.net> <00bb01c17e52$96093b50$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011206130504.GA9605@raggedclown.net>
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Cliff writes: > What is highly unlikely often happens. That is a logical impossibility. > Well, you have obviously never been a system > manager. Actually, I have. > Such a script (the front end) would be implemented > by a System Manager. The latter would also be > under his/her control and he/she would be aware > of how to call the real rm in this case. When I deleted files as a system manager, I expected them to disappear, not move to another location. Users who carelessly deleted files had to have them restored, and I made sure that took long enough or cost them enough money to give them time to reflect on their carelessness. > Besides which System management practise would > dictate you are given warnings of impending disk > space shortage. That might not help if it occurs in a script. > There are better ways of doing this than changing > system program source code. Such as? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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