On 23:39 26 Apr 2002, christopher j bottaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Sure. So? It's not psychic. | 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...;). It's not putting a useless attribute on a data file. What's your point? | 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, This says more about windows than linux. | so i | wanted all files created in that folder to be created with executable | permissions. oh well, can't win em all, i guess...=) So add the permissions yourself. You only need read permission for music under unix (it's just data). If you're exporting to windows and it has special needs then you'll have to address that yourself. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salary of a large research staff to study the problem. - Bill Vaughan _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
