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Re: chmod not working
- To: "Vincent Labella" <vlabella at uark dot edu>,cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: chmod not working
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 13:35:06 -0500
At 01:14 PM 2/6/2001, Vincent Labella wrote:
>Hello,
> After applying the recent updates I can't get chmod to work.
>
>chmod a+x test.pl
>does nothing
>
>with -v option I get
>mode of test.pl changed to 0755 (rwxr-xr-x)
>
>but ls -la gives:
>-rw-r--r-- 1 administ None 4795 Feb 6 12:06 test.pl
>
>any suggestions? is this a mounting issue?
No, but if you check out the FAQ and/or user guide and/or the mail archives,
you'll find the information you're looking for. The relevant FAQ entry can
be found at:
"Why doesn't chmod work?"
http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC37
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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