X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4879A363.8020902@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:40:35 +1000 From: thefinn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Directory Permissions issue Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Running New Cygwin install on vista. Just would like to know how to change directory permissions for various directories... Any help appreciated. Peter AT Laptop /usr/lib/perl5 $ ls -l total 40 dr-xr-x---+ 51 Peter Users 40960 Jul 13 15:18 5.10 dr-xr-x---+ 3 Peter Users 0 Jul 13 15:18 site_perl dr-xr-x---+ 3 Peter Users 0 Jul 13 15:18 vendor_perl Peter AT Laptop /usr/lib/perl5 $ chmod 755 5.10 chmod: changing permissions of `5.10': Permission denied -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/