Fedora 16 Directory Listing

[Mick Farmer]

Dear GLLUGers,

Just curious, does anyone know what the period in this
column | indicates?

[***@lapwing ~]$ ls -l
total 52
drwxrwxr-x 4 mick mick 4096 Jun 8 2011 Birkbeck
drwxr-xr-x. 2 mick mick 4096 Mar 20 18:21 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x. 3 mick mick 4096 Apr 17 14:57 Documents
drwxr-xr-x. 8 mick mick 4096 Apr 20 19:43 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x 11 mick mick 4096 Nov 5 01:54 Firefox
drwx------ 3 mick mick 4096 May 31 2011 Mail
drwxr-xr-x. 4 mick mick 4096 May 25 2011 Music
drwxr-xr-x. 2 mick mick 4096 Dec 18 23:42 Pictures
drwxrwxr-x 2 mick mick 4096 Mar 22 22:30 Plan7
drwxrwxr-x 3 mick mick 4096 Feb 28 00:24 Polynomials
drwxr-xr-x. 2 mick mick 4096 Jan 2 2011 Public
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mick mick 1658 Apr 16 18:16 temp
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mick mick 1806 Apr 16 14:45 temp~
[***@lapwing ~]$

Regards,

Mick

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[JLMS]

Post by Mick Farmer
Dear GLLUGers,
Just curious, does anyone know what the period in this
column    | indicates?
total 52
drwxrwxr-x   4 mick mick 4096 Jun  8  2011 Birkbeck
drwxr-xr-x.  2 mick mick 4096 Mar 20 18:21 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x.  3 mick mick 4096 Apr 17 14:57 Documents
drwxr-xr-x.  8 mick mick 4096 Apr 20 19:43 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x  11 mick mick 4096 Nov  5 01:54 Firefox
drwx------   3 mick mick 4096 May 31  2011 Mail
drwxr-xr-x.  4 mick mick 4096 May 25  2011 Music
drwxr-xr-x.  2 mick mick 4096 Dec 18 23:42 Pictures
drwxrwxr-x   2 mick mick 4096 Mar 22 22:30 Plan7
drwxrwxr-x   3 mick mick 4096 Feb 28 00:24 Polynomials
drwxr-xr-x.  2 mick mick 4096 Jan  2  2011 Public
-rw-rw-r--   1 mick mick 1658 Apr 16 18:16 temp
-rw-rw-r--   1 mick mick 1806 Apr 16 14:45 temp~
Regards,
Mick

It means that SELinux has labeled the file/directory and thus its
policies are being applied to them.

Try listing with "ls -lZ" without panicking at the output :-)
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Post by JLMS

Post by Mick Farmer
Dear GLLUGers,
Just curious, does anyone know what the period in this
column    | indicates?
total 52
drwxrwxr-x   4 mick mick 4096 Jun  8  2011 Birkbeck
drwxr-xr-x.  2 mick mick 4096 Mar 20 18:21 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x.  3 mick mick 4096 Apr 17 14:57 Documents
drwxr-xr-x.  8 mick mick 4096 Apr 20 19:43 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x  11 mick mick 4096 Nov  5 01:54 Firefox
drwx------   3 mick mick 4096 May 31  2011 Mail
drwxr-xr-x.  4 mick mick 4096 May 25  2011 Music
drwxr-xr-x.  2 mick mick 4096 Dec 18 23:42 Pictures
drwxrwxr-x   2 mick mick 4096 Mar 22 22:30 Plan7
drwxrwxr-x   3 mick mick 4096 Feb 28 00:24 Polynomials
drwxr-xr-x.  2 mick mick 4096 Jan  2  2011 Public
-rw-rw-r--   1 mick mick 1658 Apr 16 18:16 temp
-rw-rw-r--   1 mick mick 1806 Apr 16 14:45 temp~
Regards,
Mick

It means that SELinux has labeled the file/directory and thus its
policies are being applied to them.

... and one should note that the extra character is POSIX compliant.
See "optional alternate access method flag" here:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604499/utilities/ls.html

Rich.