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Re: CHMOD - Still having problems !!
- From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov at syntrex dot com>
- To: "Turner, Nicholas" <Nicholas dot Turner at invensys dot com>
- Cc: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 15:39:36 +0100
- Subject: Re: CHMOD - Still having problems !!
- References: <20BF6965E809D6119DC0009027E34A122534DA@mail.imserv.invensys.com>
Do you use NTFS or FAT ?
Turner, Nicholas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have checked the cygwin mailing lists and read the relevant docs
> but still have problem getting chmod to work on my NT4 SP6 PC.
>
> I have set the cygwin environment variable as below:
>
> $ cat cygwin.bat
> @echo off
> D:
> chdir \Program Files\Cygnus\bin
> set CYGWIN=binmode ntsec tty
> set PATH=d:/Progra~!/Cygnus/bin
> set HOME=d:/Progra~1/Cygnus/home
> set VISUAL=notepad
> set EDITOR=notepad
> bash --login -i
>
> Now whenever I 'touch' a file, e.g.
>
> touch test.file
>
> ...the permissions are set thus
>
> N_Turner@PC435 ~/temp
> $ touch tmp
>
> N_Turner@PC435 ~/temp
> $ ls -l
> total 0
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 N_Turner Administ 0 Feb 7 14:22 tmp
>
> Do anybody have any idea why this is ? I hope I haven't missed something in
> the setup. By the way I'm using version 1.3.9.
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