From: allan@interport.net (Allan Peda) Subject: Re: chmod broke? Or perhaps ' ls -l ' is inaccurate here 29 May 1997 17:34:28 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <338EAF1C.53EC.cygnus.gnu-win32@interport.net> References: <0009386C.1950@ccmail.irs.gov> <3362107E.321B940D@smva.com> <338E2D6C.3644@interport.net> <338D46CD.1941@cern.ch> Reply-To: allan@interport.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) Original-To: "Lassi A. Tuura" Original-CC: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Lassi A. Tuura wrote: > > Allan Peda wrote: > > bash$ chmod -v 777 input. > [snip] > > -rw-r--r-- 1 544 everyone 111586 May 29 21:12 input > > Am I misunderstanding something? You show two files, `input.' and > `input'. Perhaps you are just looking at the wrong file? Okay... double check here... (I try both spellings below): ash$ cd /usr/work ash$ ls -l i* rw-r--r-- 1 544 everyone 111586 May 29 21:12 input rw-r--r-- 1 544 everyone 227 May 29 21:10 input.cpp rw-r--r-- 1 544 everyone 203 May 29 21:06 input.mak ash$ chmod -v 777 input. ode of input. changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx) ash$ ls -l i* rw-r--r-- 1 544 everyone 111586 May 29 21:12 input rw-r--r-- 1 544 everyone 227 May 29 21:10 input.cpp rw-r--r-- 1 544 everyone 203 May 29 21:06 input.mak ash$ chmod -v 777 input ode of input changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx) ash$ ls -l i* rw-r--r-- 1 544 everyone 111586 May 29 21:12 input rw-r--r-- 1 544 everyone 227 May 29 21:10 input.cpp rw-r--r-- 1 544 everyone 203 May 29 21:06 input.mak ash$ Hmmm, still peculiar. Thanks for the reply Allan - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".