Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pilchuck!pacer!davidb From: davidb@Pacer.UUCP (David Barts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: HP-UX problems and suggestions (s800) Summary: File protections, mvdir Keywords: HP-UX s800 3.1 Message-ID: <245@zircon.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 89 14:52:24 GMT References: <1717@zen.co.uk> Organization: Pacer Corp., Bothell, WA Lines: 19 In article <1717@zen.co.uk>, frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales) writes: > This posting is rather lengthy (>300 lines), and contains both > . . . > 4) HP-UX is consistently shipped with inappropriate file . . . > . . . *No* executable should be readable (or writable!). Shell scripts need BOTH read and execute permission; binaries only need execute. > . . . > [Also, why is /usr/lib/mvdir present, since mv(1) uses rename(2)? > Does something else use it?] > . . . Yes. Anything that moves directories in an SYS V compatible way. Rename(2) is a BSD-ism. -- David Barts Pacer Corporation davidb@pacer.uucp ...!fluke!pacer!davidb