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Re: chattr feature available?
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Andrew Stribblehill |
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Re: chattr feature available? |
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Mon, 1 Sep 2003 12:16:23 +0100 |
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Quoting Mark Burgess <Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no> (2003-09-01 09:33:27 BST):
> On 1 Sep, Andrew Stribblehill wrote:
> > Quoting Hans Deragon <hans@deragon.biz> (2003-08-29 16:31:43 BST):
> >> Greetings.
> >>
> >> Reading the documents and googling the web, I have found nothing
> >> that suggest that chattr is supported within cfengine. Since
> >> chattr is specific to the ext2 filesystem, I am not surprise. But
> >> before I start hacking around with shellcommands: to call chattr, I
> >> amd asking if there is support for chattr commands with the copy:
> >> and files: commands. So is there some chattr feature hidden within
> >> cfengine?
> >
> > I'm certain it's not there already but if you want to implement it, I
> > suggest you look at the acl:: code. It seems to fit most neatly
> > there.
>
> So what it chattr?
Extended attributes specifically for ext2 and ext3. Examples:
set/unset the immutable, append-only, transparent-compress flags.
Whilst they're not ACLs they seem to me to fit there best.
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