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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is there a FreeBSD version of chattr?
Date: 23 Feb 1997 01:50:35 GMT
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craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) wrote:

> Linux has a utility (chattr) that keeps a user from hard linking a file.  Is 
> there a FreeBSD equiv?

chflags?

j@uriah 121% touch foo
j@uriah 122% ln foo bar
j@uriah 123% rm -f bar
j@uriah 124% chflags uchg foo
j@uriah 125% ln foo bar
ln: bar: Operation not permitted
j@uriah 126% ls -lo foo
-rw-r--r--  1 j  bin  uchg 0 Feb 23 02:49 foo

-- 
cheers, J"org

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