No nonodump...

[Sean Page]

Ahhh, right you are. Regrettably, you caught me skimming the material a
little too quickly. Guess I should have finished my coffee first [insert
sheepish grin here] :-) 
Sorry to have wasted the bandwidth folks.

Sean.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ceri Davies [mailto:setantae at submonkey.net] 
Sent: September 8, 2003 12:23 PM
To: Sean Page
Cc: stable at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: No nonodump...


On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:08:43PM -0600, Sean Page wrote:
> 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.

Without wishing to sound like an asshole, did you read the PR that you
posted a reference to?  Specifically the part where it says the manpage
should say "use dump to clear the nodump flag".

> At any rate, 'chflags dump' did indeed remove the flag in question.
> Thanks for the suggestions.

No problem.

Ceri

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