Re: File attributes being set after upgrade

[David Jarvie <lists@astrojar.org.uk>]

On Saturday 18 February 2006 22:21, David Jarvie wrote:
> Since my latest dist-upgrade today, many of my files are having file
> attributes (as displayed by lsattr) set, and as far as I can tell, this
> didn't happen before. At any rate, seemingly randomly, various of my files
> are becoming undeletable for no apparent reason. I seem to have to log in
> as root and do a "chattr -i" or "chattr -a" to fix things.
>
> Previously I never encountered such a problem. What might be setting these
> attributes? I want to disable it, since I have no need for special security
> measures, being a sole user of the system.

I should have said that I'm running Etch, and my last dist-upgrade before 
today was between one and two weeks ago.

-- 
David Jarvie