Re: chmod not working

1998-04-23 Thread Alain Toussaint
> I think you have misunderstood some of what has been said in the replies, > doing > a chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o=x or chmod 751 on a directody will give it the > permissions > of drwxr-x--x as you say it has, so to me it looks like chmod had done what > you > asked. > > It may help us if you told us

Re: chmod not working

1998-04-23 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
>> i was messing with some permission to directory but i think i found a bug >> in chmod,i try to run "chmod 751" on my home directory (i put the content >> of the home directory on another partition because of lack of space on my >> root partition),but the permission is still drwxr-x--x,i even tri

Re: chmod not working

1998-04-23 Thread Alain Toussaint
> I think that you must think that 'drwxr-x--x' means something > different than it does. Seeing this permission in ls means that the > user (owner) of the directory has read, write, and execute privileges, > that people in the same group as the owner have read and execute > privileges, and that

Re: chmod not working

1998-04-23 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Alain Toussaint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i was messing with some permission to directory but i think i found a bug > in chmod,i try to run "chmod 751" on my home directory (i put the content > of the home directory on another partition because of lack of space on my > root partition),but the

Re: chmod not working

1998-04-23 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > i was messing with some permission to directory but i think i found a bug > in chmod,i try to run "chmod 751" on my home directory (i put the content > of the home directory on another partition because of lack of space on my > root partition),but the permission is still drwxr-x--x,i even trie