OT: redhat

[Bill Vermillion]

On Mon, Nov 08 13:06 , Men gasped, women fainted, and small children 
were reduced to tears as Fairlight confessed to all:" 

> Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Bill Vermillion done said:

> > Clarification please.  Do you mean reiserfs will accept but no use
> > it, or that ext2 and ext3 will set it but no use it.

> > How do you see if the immuteable flag is set.  In BSD it's the -o
> > along with the l flag.  ls -lo  at the minimum.  The chflags in BSD
> > also can do more than set immuteable.  You can use it to make
> > files append only - so that if a hacker makes it in they can not
> > change the log file [as an example], or you can set other things
> > such as nodump.

> I'll answer both at once. You change the attribute bits with
> chattr and list them with lsattr. The problem with Reiser is
> that when you chattr +i filename you then do an lsattr filename
> and find the 'i' bit set. But it's not honoured.

Getting to be more like MS every day ? or :-) - your choice.

Just adding one more flag to 'ls' seemed logical to me.  The
program exists and you just add more functionality instead
of adding a complete new program.  Oh well.  Thanks.

Bill
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