chmod link

[Scott D. Allen]

I inadvertantly deleted a slink from /usr/bin (/usr/bin/as). Now, I'm trying to recreate it with the same perms. lr-xr-xr-t however, whenever I modify the perms (chmod 1555 as), it just changes the perms of the file that it's linked to. How do I modify the perms on the link?

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

The man pages on chmod say:

If chmod is used on a symbolic link, the mode of the file referred to
by the link is changed.

so i think its behaving like it should.

[James R. Ferguson]

Scott:

The lowercase 't' indictates a 'transition link'. If this is the missing element then I think you need to run tlinstall.

...JRF...

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Scott:

Take a look at:

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=1dd9ab4713db0b6bd4/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000046212164

...JRF...

[James R. Ferguson]

Scott (or whoever):

The link didn't paste terribly well. The document is type "EN", ID=S3100000611, title="Sys Adm: losing the 'sticky bit' when copying a file", dated 1999 Nov 24.

...JRF...