The xattr tag has no wiki summary.
2
votes
1answer
52 views
What does the command “chattr +c /some/dir/” do?
I'm trying to keep a bunch of plain text files compressed using the extended attribute option - c on a debian ppc64 system. I ran the following commands:
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/test/compressed
# mount ...
1
vote
1answer
97 views
How are default permissions determined (on OS X)?
My (limited) understanding of basic Unix is that any files that are created will be created based on the permissions of the creating user. In particular, the group assigned will be the creating user's ...
2
votes
1answer
167 views
how to remove quarantine from file permissions in os x
I downloaded a .pem file and my Mac OS X (10.8.2) added an @ sign at the end of the file permissions. This is causing file permission issues. I can't seem to remove the quarantine flag. I even tried ...
0
votes
1answer
74 views
Cent OS 6.3 Hidden files in shell
I need help, I want to be able to check whether a file is hidden or not in Cent OS 6.3. These are often referred to as (dot) files but I can clearly see Cent OS 6.3 handling these by appending a ...
2
votes
0answers
161 views
Samba 3 on Arch Linux, streams_xattr behaviour
I'm running Samba 3.6.8-1 on my x64 Arch Linux installation. I recently decided to have my samba share support NTFS's Alternate Data Streams by using streams_xattr or streams_depot. With streams_xattr ...
0
votes
1answer
328 views
Prevent directory permission change (or cronjob to work around)
I have a HostGator dedicated server running CentOS. I have a folder on one user's account where I want all users to be able to have read access, so we keep it chmod'd to 755. HG has a script that runs ...
2
votes
3answers
1k views
How to clone/copy all file/directory attributes onto different file/directory?
I want to copy the attributes (ownership, group, ACL, extended attributes, etc.) of one directory to another but not the directory contents itself.
This does not work:
cp -v --attributes-only A B
...
2
votes
1answer
174 views
How to utilize extended attributes for image preview?
Is there any file browsers for Linux that cache image previews, just like Windows Explorer cache them to a file named Thumbs.db?
As in the latest ext3/4 filesystems, an inode can hold extended ...
1
vote
1answer
79 views
attr man page missing?
How does one search for certain manpages (such as http://linux.die.net/man/5/attr)? Trying:
man attr
and
man -K attr
don't seem to work.
Any ideas why?
1
vote
1answer
1k views
What's the meaning of output of lsattr
I'm wondering what the output of lsattr means.It prints so oddly as follows,when I have tried lsattr /usr
-----------------e- /usr/local
-----------------e- /usr/src
-----------------e- /usr/games
...
5
votes
1answer
380 views
Immutable bit on AIX?
Under Linux I can:
chattr +i SOMEFILE
so that even root can't modify the SOMEFILE. Are there any similar solutions for AIX?
4
votes
2answers
377 views
Tell if a folder/file is hidden in Mac OS X
I know you can set or unset the hidden flag of a folder/file by doing chflags hidden foo.txt and chflags nohidden foo.txt.
But is there anyway of telling whether the folder/file is currently hidden ...
1
vote
1answer
478 views
Extended attribute on symbolic link
I'm trying to set some extended attributes on a symbolic link on Fedora 15.
According to setfattr's usage, there is an option -h for such purpose:
setfattr 2.4.44 -- set extended attributes
Usage: ...
6
votes
1answer
398 views
Questions about extended attributes
I have a small question about extended file attributes. Assume I label my files with metadata in extended attributes (e.g. to account for the integrity - but this does not matter for my question). The ...
2
votes
1answer
394 views
immutable-like flag for perms
Is there any chattr flag that would allow me to lock a file's unix permissons, and not change them without resetting the flag? The file itself should still be modifiable, I just want to prevent ... ...
3
votes
2answers
768 views
What does file version mean: lsattr -v
lsattr -v gives me the "version number" of given file(s).
What does this mean?
On Redhat 7.3, I could've sworn all the version numbers were 1 except
those I changed with chattr -v.
On Fedora 11, ...
3
votes
1answer
1k views
what does the “a” in chattr +ia do?
what does the a in chattr +ia <filename> do? and why would you add the a in combination with the i? note: I know the i is for immutable
6
votes
1answer
583 views
What does the 'a' attribute in lsattr mean?
I was trying to remove some old history from my .bash_history file, but I was receiving this message:
[john ~] /home/john $ mv .bash_history .bas
mv: impossible to move `.bash_history' to `.bas': ...
