On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Jean Charles Delepine wrote: > > What specific use case do you have ? > > On an netapp .snapshot/ is read-only, but only .snapshot.
And .snapshot is only at the root of the mount point or in all directories? > I can't think of a failure on chmod/chown which should'nt have make the > install crash before in the process. By not crashing here we let the > install finish, databese, web server, and the admin will have clear > error logs if sympa can't start. The nice solution is to exclude .snapshot from the recursive chmod/chown. But I don't like the idea to have to do that just because netapps put a special directory there... cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/