In article <1120839134.633665.118230@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups .com>,
sldghmr <ray.hall@gmail.com> wrote:
:Actually, I think I mis-stated what I'm really trying to do here. I'd
:like to define an entire directory (and all subdirectories) as not
:being able to be chown'd/chmod'd.
:
:Is that possible?

If the whole subtree is read-only and the filesystem is ext2/ext3, you
can use 'chattr' to set the "i" (immutable) attribute.

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