Anne Wilson ha scritto: > I have a small text file that I want to ensure cannot be accidentally deleted, > so I ran > > chattr -i /home/anne/WebPages/UserBase/filename.txt > > (as root, of course). Running lsattr against the same file produced > > -------------e- /home/anne/WebPages/UserBase/filename.txt > > 'i' doesn't show in ls -l filename, either. I haven't come across 'e' before. > What is it, and is my file immutable or not? > > Anne > > 1) You must be superuser (i.e. login as root, or use /su/) in order to have chattr set the /i /attribute/. 2) -i /*removes* the i attribute, doesn't set it. From chattr man page, the rule is: - sign removes, + sign adds = sign makes it the only attribute. You should type: chatttr +i /home/anne/etc.. then with lsattr you'll see something like: ----i-------- file.txt Regards, Giuliano _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
