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Re: [cobalt-users] "Chattr +i" on inetd.conf & the GUI



On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Scott F wrote:

> Recently I used the "chattr +i" command on my
> inetd.conf file 

> I seriously thought "chattr -i" was all that was needed
> to remove "chattr" settings from a file,  

It is, and that should tell you something about how useless chattr is when
you don't have the machine setup to use it ;) So don't play with it, if
you had managed to get it to work you would be in real trouble, as a
machine setup to use immutable file attributes will not let even root turn
them off again, that's the ENTIRE point of them ;)

As Taco posted, you probably just crashed the perl script and left a dead
lock file in var/lock....

gsh