Linux and data storage?

[Janina Sajka]

Yes, this is useful. It's probably beyond what she needs to be concerned
about, but certainly useful.

Luke Davis writes:
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> >600 certainly does help. Can you build a tar and chmod at the same time?
> 
> Hmm, an interesting question.  There are two ways to test this idea, which 
> I will now attempt...
> 
> Starting the tar process in one window (using screen), and in another 
> listing the file in /tmp, shows, 644.  Doing a chmod to 600, while the tar 
> is still in progress, then listing the file again, shows 600.  So that 
> solution appears to work, as would, of course, backgrounding the tar 
> process, and changing the mode.
> 
> The other method:
> 
> touch /tmp/ldtf.tbz
> chmod 600 /tmp/ldtf.tbz
> tar --bzip2 -cf /tmp/ldtf.tbz ~/
> 
> also acomplishes the task of keeping the file private, so I suppose the 
> answer is yes, in all possible ways.
> 
> >I realize we're splitting hairs here.
> 
> So what?  The more hairs you split, the more lessons you learn about hair.
> Put another way: in order to determine the means by which something 
> operates, is frequently to split it open, and see!
> 
> Luke
> 
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