topic Re: Help with links please in Operating System - HP-UX

Help with links please

Jamie McColl — Mon, 19 Jun 2000 10:24:43 GMT

I have some links on my server which have the permissions :-
lr-xr-xr-xT

What does the 'T' mean and when I go to recreate these links, how do I create the 'T'?

Re: Help with links please

Dan Am — Mon, 19 Jun 2000 10:46:35 GMT

these are most probably so called
transition links. that is, they are installed for backward compatibility to HPUX 9.x

three commands with man-pages:

tlinstall
tllist
tlremove

you can manually set the T with chmod
( sticky bit), but that should not be neccesary.

Re: Help with links please

Andreas Voss — Mon, 19 Jun 2000 10:50:54 GMT

Jus a note:
if you chmod to a symlink you change the file what sysmlink goes through not the symlink itself.

Re: Help with links please

Alan Riggs — Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:15:03 GMT

Are you certain the permission string you posted is correct? I have not seen a T in that posiiton. IF, however, the string is:

lr_xr_xr_T

Then you have a sticky bit set with execute/search directry permission denied to others.

Re: Help with links please

Dale McNamara — Tue, 20 Jun 2000 11:51:51 GMT

the reason you may have this setting could be from a umask setting when the link was created.

The "T" in this position usually is associated with executable files. The sticky bit in this case would lock that executable in memory, speeding up calls to it. (prevents the system from abandoning the swap-space image)

To set this permission on a file, you would chmod 1444

check out the man page for chmod(2) for more info.