drwxr-x--- 14 root mail 4096 May 28 12:05 templates


what does the 14 mean that is next to the root? is there a way to change it?

From the OpenBSD manual pages:

The Long Format
If the -l or -n options are given, the following information is displayed for each file: mode, number of links, owner, group, size in bytes, time of last modification (``mmm dd HH:MM''), and the pathname. In addition, for each directory whose contents are displayed, the first line displayed is the total number of blocks used by the files in the directory. Blocks are 512 bytes unless overridden by the -k option or BLOCKSIZE environment variable.

It looks like the 14 represents the number of links.


The OpenBSD man pages are excellent, I find myself referring to them for a lot of stuff that is sparsely doc'd in Linux. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi