Re: chmod indicates success, but does not succeed

2011-02-16 Thread hardya
Sorry I didn't mean to cause a problem. I just paraphrased the msys welcome doc. The more accurate text is: "Welcome to the world of MSYS and MinGW. Minimal SYStem is a minimal POSIX system used in the Win32 OS to accomplish configuration and making of packages. MSYS is a fork of Cygwin and i

Re: chmod indicates success, but does not succeed

2011-02-15 Thread hardya
That clears it up then thanks. At least as far as my post here is concerned any way. MSYS is described as a fork of cygwin that's specially suited to being used with win32. I guess I hadn't expected this particular problem to be related to the fork. Any way, as you rightly say, it is 'not' cyg

chmod indicates success, but does not succeed

2011-02-15 Thread hardya
First let me appologise for the bad subject line and lack of explicit content. I realise the importance of following forum guidelines and I shall try to be clearer, at least within my ability. As mentioned at the beginning of my post, though perhaps not so clearly as I should. Cgywin was provid

Re: Newbie confused about chmod

2011-02-15 Thread hardya
Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples $ ls -l Simulation -rw-r--r-- 1 Andrew Hardy Administrators 238835 Oct 28 2005 Simulation Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples $ chmod -v 666 Simulation mode of `Simulation' changed to 0666 (rw-rw-rw-) Andrew H

Newbie confused about chmod

2011-02-15 Thread hardya
I am running cgwin (for omnet++, but that's a BTW) on Windows 7 (NTFS). I cannot chmode files I untarred into a folder and I cannot chmod a file I create in cgwin myself. I understood that you could do this if the file system was NTFS. The bottom line is I have an executable that is not executa