I'm guessing to try something with the owner of the symlink, <div>otherwise the permissions of modification are down to the file.</div><div><br></div><div>Failing that, try a chmod on the symlink</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 5 November 2010 11:52, Evan Ingram <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:evan.ingram@cariss.co.uk">evan.ingram@cariss.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 10:46 +0000, Mike Evans wrote:<br>
> Yup - unless you tell it not to. Have a look at the man page for cp. I<br>
> suspect that the -d or -P command line flag might help.<br>
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</div>-d seems to do the trick.<br>
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next problem; i'd like to make it so that users cannot modify the<br>
symlink or delete it. is this possible as symlinks just seem to be 777<br>
and/or pick up the permissions of the directory they are linked to.<br>
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