Re: mtree(8) reporting of file modes

2012-03-06 Thread David Wolfskill
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 06:05:51PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > ... > I guess the question is why do *you* find the "/set" lines to (even just > occasionally) not be useful? > ... Simple: I overlooked them. :-} Thanks for the clarification: I *thought* there might be something fairly obvious th

Re: mtree(8) reporting of file modes

2012-03-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Wolfskill writes: > * mode is set to the (masked) mode of the (immediately) enclosing > directory when it is visited in pre-order. (This is done in statd().) Not quite. It looks like when statd() is called on the enclosing directory itself, it walks all of the children to find the most

Re: mtree(8) reporting of file modes

2012-03-06 Thread Ian Lepore
On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 12:41 -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > As I mentioned in > , at work, > we're trying to use mtree(8) to do reality checks on server > configuration/provisioning. (We are not proposing the use of mtree to > actually enf

mtree(8) reporting of file modes

2012-03-06 Thread David Wolfskill
As I mentioned in , at work, we're trying to use mtree(8) to do reality checks on server configuration/provisioning. (We are not proposing the use of mtree to actually enforce a particular configuration -- we are only considering using it