Re: [rdiff-backup-users] attribute strangeness with destimation

[John covici]

Oh, I see I sort of misunderstood what that meant, now I get it.

on Thursday 07/31/2008 Andrew Ferguson(address@hidden) wrote
 > On Jul 31, 2008, at 10:03 AM, John covici wrote:
 > 
 > > Hi.  I have a system which I want to back up to a Linux ext-3 file
 > > system.  Now what is strange is that for the destination file system,
 > 
 > >
 > > Now my question is why does it say Simlink permissions off?  I am
 > > running as root, so what is going on.
 > 
 > 
 > Linux systems do not have permissions for symlinks, only user and  
 > group owners. They are always 777 on Linux.
 > 
 > BSD systems, by contrast, can have permissions, as set by the umask.
 > 
 > 
 > Andrew

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