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Re: Permission problem

2004-02-26 18:59:39
On 25 Feb 2004, at 11:03, Professional Software Engineering wrote:
[/private/etc] usern% ls -al pr*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1786 Feb  4 19:31 procmailrc

/etc/ and /usr/local/etc/ I know about, but /private/etc/ is a new one on me. Looks like OSX is redefining a lot of stuff.

/etc /var /tmp are links to /private/etc /private/var and /private/tmp under OS X


I'm not sure exactly WHY Apple decided to do this, but it might be<1> those locations where set before they came up with the .hidden file to hide specific files and folders from the GUI.


<1> Rampant speculation on my part.

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