topic Softlink in Operating System - HP-UX

Softlink

Daniela Pinger — Sun, 23 Nov 2003 08:05:31 GMT

lrwx------ 1 root sys 16 Nov 18 03:30 scp -> /opt/ssh/bin/scp

chmod 755 scp
=> 700

I need 755! What can I do ?

Re: Softlink

James Murtagh — Sun, 23 Nov 2003 08:50:10 GMT

Hi Daniela,

The permissions of a symbolic link itself is ignored, it is only the permissions of the target file that you need be concerned with. The "ln" manpage discusses this in more depth.

cheers,

James.

Re: Softlink

James Murtagh — Sun, 23 Nov 2003 09:03:23 GMT

Thought I'd add, if you really wanted the permissions to be 755 for whatever reason you could alter your umask to be 022 and re-create the link :

# rm scp
# umask 022
# ln -s /opt/ssh/bin/scp scp

Re: Softlink

Norman_21 — Sun, 23 Nov 2003 09:16:02 GMT

Another way:
#rm -i scp
#chmod 755 /opt/ssh/bin/scp
#ln -s /opt/ssh/bin/scp scp

Hope this help!