-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 April 2002 12:39 am, christopher j bottaro wrote: > cool, what a great explanation. but i've always though of linux being > an operating system that gives great power to the user...and the user > being someone quite knowledgable. i know when i need executable > permissions on a file and i'm disappointed that linux (or i guess bash) > wants to protect me from making a "common" mistake (isn't that a > windows philosophy...;). the reason why i bring this up is that i have > a samba share called public_mp3s shared to 5 win/linux computers. > windows doesn't like to play mp3's (by double clicking at least) that > don't have the executable attribute set, so i wanted all files created > in that folder to be created with executable permissions. oh well, > can't win em all, i guess...=)
You still have great power, without the problem of having every file created as an executable. 'chmod +x public_mp3s/*.mp3' All *.mp3 files in that directory will then have the executable bit set. - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.2 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjzKM74ACgkQn/07WoAb/StvGwCfT/mtR6h1BLGn4nMbOakbSlqo HtcAnipCO7lZwD0v4Yh3AByWHRwlf89L =TEZA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
