No nonodump...

[Sean Page]

Alas, my man page for chflags is as follows:

  The flags are specified as an octal number or a comma separated list of
     keywords.  The following keywords are currently defined:

           arch    set the archived flag (super-user only)
           opaque  set the opaque flag (owner or super-user only)
           nodump  set the nodump flag (owner or super-user only)
           sappnd  set the system append-only flag (super-user only)
           schg    set the system immutable flag (super-user only)
           sunlnk  set the system undeletable flag (super-user only)
           uappnd  set the user append-only flag (owner or super-user only)
           uchg    set the user immutable flag (owner or super-user only)
           uunlnk  set the user undeletable flag (owner or super-user only)
           archived, sappend, schange, simmutable, uappend, uchange,
                   uimmutable, sunlink, uunlink
                   aliases for the above

     Putting the letters ``no'' before an option causes the flag to be
turned
     off.  For example:

           nouchg  the immutable bit should be cleared

A little misleading I would say. At any rate, 'chflags dump' did indeed
remove the flag in question. 
Thanks for the suggestions.

Sean.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ceri Davies [mailto:setantae at submonkey.net] 
Sent: September 8, 2003 11:48 AM
To: Sean Page
Cc: stable at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: No nonodump...


On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:57:24AM -0600, Sean Page wrote:
> I'm not sure where else to ask about this, so please excuse me if this 
> is the wrong forum. In trying to remove a 'nodump' flag on a directory 
> with the 'chflags' command I have noticed that the 'nonodump' flag 
> does not function. I see an open PR for the problem: o [2003/01/09] 
> i386/46912 johan chflags nonodump fails I was wondering when this 
> might be dealt with? Else is there another way to remove the flag?

>From the chflags manpage:

     Putting the letters ``no'' before or removing the letters ``no'' from a
     keyword causes the flag to be cleared.  For example:

           nouchg  clear the user immutable flag (owner or super-user only)
           dump    clear the nodump flag (owner or super-user only)


Ceri
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