chflags understanding

[Vijay]

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 09:02, Alden Louis-Pierre wrote:
>     I'm looking through the Handbook to learn how to secure my FreeBSD 
> 4.9 system.  While reading 10.2( 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security-intro.html
> ) it makes reference to the chflags command.
> Is there a difference between "chflags -R schg /sbin *" and "chflags 
> schg /sbin *"?

The '-R' flag sets all the files in the /sbin including any files under
the /sbin directory tree. Without it it will affect only the files under
/sbin
> 
> Thank You
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