MediaWiki:Sitenotice:
2025-12-29: I have restored the wiki to a backup from the end of November. Starting in September 2025, accesses went form the 800MB-1.2GB range per month to 26GB in September, 42GB in October, and 70GB in November with most accesses originating from China. As soon as I realized what was causing all the access problems in November, I shut it down (it had reached 36GB by then) behind a password/login screen. The database had gotten corrupted, and I tried a restore from just before the spike in access but that didn't work. Thus, end of November. I still have the other daily backups so if there were any important additions in December, let me know and maybe they can be recovered. - Allen H.
ATTR
Used to examine or change the permissions of files.
Syntax: ATTR filename [<options>] [<permissions>]
Options :
-perm = turn off specified permission perm = turn on specified permission -a = inhibit printing of attrs after change
Permissions :
d - directory file s - non-sharable file r - read permit to owner w - write permit to owner e - execute permit to owner pr - read permit to public pw - write permit to public pe - execute permit to public
A file with the d permission turned on becomes a directory. A directory with the d permission turned off becomes a regular file - DON'T do it unless the directory is empty!!
To delete a directory, the d permission must be turned off. The DELDIR command does this automatically.
A non-shareable file ( s permission) can not be opened by more than one user or program at the same time. Can be used to prevent different users from modifying the file at the same time.
Examples:
attr CMDS
Shows the permissions of the CMDS directory.
Results in d-ewrewr
attr myscript e pe -pw
Turns on the execution permissions for the owner of the file and the public, and turns off the write permission for the public. After this, the file can be executed by anyone, but can be edited only by the owner.
Equivalent / similar commands in other OSs