6 Feb
2021
6 Feb
'21
11:08 p.m.
On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 02:11:05PM -0600, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
What is the difference between immutable and read-only, and how do you
make a file immutable?
I know how to make a file read-only: `chmod a-w file`.
What does immutability give us that removing write permission doesn't?
--
Steve
On 2021-02-06 08:32:38 Marvin Jones via tde-users
wrote:
One hack is to
make that config file Read-Only.
It's the sort of hack I use from time-to-time.
Your choice, of course.
HTH,
Jonesy
Even better, make it immutable.