chmod 444 *

[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Sep 21, 2012 4:36 PM, "KD" <kdall99 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> William Scott Lockwood III <vladinator <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Sep 21, 2012 4:00 PM, "Thufir" <hawat.thufir <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Under what conditions can this file get deleted?
>
> Under the condition that the permissions of the directory containing it
allow it.
>
> > > thufir <at> dur:/var/spool/news/interesting.groups$
> > > thufir <at> dur:/var/spool/news/interesting.groups$ ll
/var/spool/news/
> > > interesting.groups/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user
> > > -r--r--r-- 1 news news 0 Sep  9 23:37
/var/spool/news/interesting.groups/
> > > gmane.linux.ubuntu.user
> > > thufir <at> dur:/var/spool/news/interesting.groups$
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I want that this file can be read, but not deleted.  I looked through
> > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilePermission
> > > but wasn't sure that I have the correct setting.
>
> Well, that a non-existing wiki page provides only little enlightment,
should
> come as no surprise.
> OTOH
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilePermissions
> has all info.
>
> > Now do chattr +i to the file.
>
> Irrelevant. Whether or not a file may be deleted has nothing to do with
the
> permissions of the file itself - only the permissions of the directory
> containing it matter.
>
> --
> KD

Making the file immutable will prevent any modification. Thus the
'immutable' part.
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