If you're doing anything with ACLs, the GNU utilities have no
knowledge of ACLs, so GNU chmod will not modify them (nor will GNU ls
show ACLs), you need to use /bin/chmod and /bin/ls to manipulate them.
It does sound though that GNU chmod is explicitly testing and skipping
any entry that's a link
>I know it's documented in the manual, but I find it a bit strange behaviour
>that chmod -R changes the permissions of the target of a
>symbolic link.
>
>Is there any reason for this behaviour?
>
Symbolic links do not have a mode; so you can't chmod them; chmod(2)
follows symbolic links (it wa
Hi,
I know it's documented in the manual, but I find it a bit strange behaviour
that chmod -R changes the permissions of the target of a
symbolic link.
This just really messed up my system, where I have a data directory, with a
backup of some Linux systems.
Within these Linux systems, th
