On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 12:10:16AM -0500, MonMotha wrote: > Vince Hoang wrote: > >IIRC, a recursive chmod should not follow symlinks unless the > >chmod calls the symlink directly. Not that this helps your > >situation, but more to understand why it happened. > > Was it maybe a hard link for some reason?
You can only hard link a file on the same filesystem. Directories do not apply. However, you can mount / under another directory with a null/union mount using the --bind option. A recursive chmod should propagate changes there. -Vince