On Thursday 31 March 2011 10:26:10 Giuliano Colla wrote: > 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 > Thanks, both of you. Definitely a Duh! moment. Put it down to senility ;-) Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
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