[2ac4928] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY attr-download-http "http://mirror.dknss.com/nongnu/attr/attr-&attr-version;.src.tar.gz">
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| 8 | <!ENTITY attr-download-ftp " ">
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| 9 | <!ENTITY attr-md5sum "d132c119831c27350e10b9f885711adc">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY attr-size "309 KB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY attr-buildsize "3 MB">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY attr-time "0.1 SBU">
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| 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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| 15 | <sect1 id="attr" xreflabel="attr-&attr-version;">
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| 16 | <?dbhtml filename="attr.html"?>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <sect1info>
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| 19 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 20 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 21 | </sect1info>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <title>attr-&attr-version;</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <indexterm zone="attr">
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| 26 | <primary sortas="a-attr">attr</primary>
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| 27 | </indexterm>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 30 | <title>Introduction to attr</title>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para>The <application>attr</application> package contains utilities to
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| 33 | administer the extended attributes on filesystem objects.</para>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 36 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 37 | <listitem>
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| 38 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&attr-download-http;"/></para>
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| 39 | </listitem>
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| 40 | <listitem>
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| 41 | <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&attr-download-ftp;"/></para>
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| 42 | </listitem>
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| 43 | <listitem>
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| 44 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &attr-md5sum;</para>
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| 45 | </listitem>
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| 46 | <listitem>
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| 47 | <para>Download size: &attr-size;</para>
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| 48 | </listitem>
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| 49 | <listitem>
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| 50 | <para>Estimated disk space required: &attr-buildsize;</para>
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| 51 | </listitem>
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| 52 | <listitem>
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| 53 | <para>Estimated build time: &attr-time;</para>
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| 54 | </listitem>
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| 55 | </itemizedlist>
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| 56 |
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| 57 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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| 58 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/attr"/></para>
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| 59 |
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| 60 | </sect2>
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| 61 |
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| 62 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 63 | <title>Installation of attr</title>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | <para>Install <application>attr</application> by running the following
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| 66 | commands:</para>
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| 67 |
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| 68 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib &&
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| 69 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 70 |
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| 71 | <para>There are three sets of tests that come with this package. Issue the
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| 72 | following to execute all three:
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| 73 | <command>make tests root-tests ext-tests</command>. For meaningful results,
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| 74 | the tests need to be carried out on a file system that supports extended
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| 75 | attributes. Some failures will occur due to a missing script called
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| 76 | sort-getfattr-output which is not part fo the tarball.</para>
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| 77 |
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| 78 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 79 |
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| 80 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install install-dev install-lib &&
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| 81 | mv /usr/share/doc/attr /usr/share/doc/attr-&attr-version;</userinput></screen>
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| 82 |
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| 83 | </sect2>
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| 84 |
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| 85 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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| 86 | <title>Configuring attr</title>
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| 87 | <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
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| 88 |
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| 89 | <para>There is no configuration to <application>attr</application> itself,
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| 90 | but to get any use out of <application>attr</application>, a filesystem
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| 91 | needs to support extended attributes.</para>
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| 92 |
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| 93 | <para>One way to achieve this is to add the user_xattr option to an ext3
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| 94 | filesystem in the /etc/fstab file as shown below.</para>
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| 95 |
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| 96 | <screen># file system mount-point type options dump fsck
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| 97 | # order
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| 98 |
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| 99 | /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults,acl,user_xattr 0 2</screen>
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| 100 |
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| 101 | </sect3>
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| 102 |
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| 103 | </sect2>
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| 104 |
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| 105 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 106 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 107 |
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| 108 | <segmentedlist>
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| 109 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 110 | <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
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| 111 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 112 |
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| 113 | <seglistitem>
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| 114 | <seg>attr, getfattr, and setfattr</seg>
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| 115 | <seg>libattr.{so,a}</seg>
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| 116 | <seg>/usr/{include/attr,share/doc/attr-&attr-version;}</seg>
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| 117 | </seglistitem>
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| 118 | </segmentedlist>
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| 119 |
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| 120 | <variablelist>
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| 121 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 122 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 123 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 124 |
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| 125 | <varlistentry id="attr-prog">
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| 126 | <term><command>attr</command></term>
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| 127 | <listitem>
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| 128 | <para>extends attributes on filesystem objects.</para>
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| 129 | <indexterm zone="attr attr">
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| 130 | <primary sortas="b-attr">attr</primary>
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| 131 | </indexterm>
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| 132 | </listitem>
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| 133 | </varlistentry>
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| 134 |
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| 135 | <varlistentry id="getfattr">
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| 136 | <term><command>getfattr</command></term>
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| 137 | <listitem>
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| 138 | <para>gets the extended attributes of filesystem objects.</para>
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| 139 | <indexterm zone="attr getfattr">
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| 140 | <primary sortas="b-getfattr">getfattr</primary>
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| 141 | </indexterm>
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| 142 | </listitem>
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| 143 | </varlistentry>
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| 144 |
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| 145 | <varlistentry id="setfattr">
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| 146 | <term><command>setfattr</command></term>
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| 147 | <listitem>
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| 148 | <para>sets the extended attributes of filesystem objects.</para>
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| 149 | <indexterm zone="attr setfattr">
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| 150 | <primary sortas="b-setfattr">setfattr</primary>
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| 151 | </indexterm>
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| 152 | </listitem>
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| 153 | </varlistentry>
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| 154 |
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| 155 | <varlistentry id="libattr">
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| 156 | <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libattr.{so,a}</filename></term>
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| 157 | <listitem>
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| 158 | <para>contains the <application>attr</application> API functions.</para>
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| 159 | <indexterm zone="attr libattr">
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| 160 | <primary sortas="c-libattr">libattr.{so,a}</primary>
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| 161 | </indexterm>
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| 162 | </listitem>
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| 163 | </varlistentry>
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| 164 |
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| 165 | </variablelist>
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| 166 |
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| 167 | </sect2>
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| 168 |
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| 169 | </sect1>
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