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From: Keith M. <kei...@us...> - 2007-07-29 21:58:13
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On Sunday 29 July 2007 20:16, Sunil wrote: > I give the following command: > $ chmod -vR 777 /usr/local/share/ > mode of `/usr/local/share' changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx) > mode of `/usr/local/share/aclocal' changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx) > mode of `/usr/local/share/aclocal/gimp-2.0.m4' changed to 0777 > (rwxrwxrwx) mode of `/usr/local/share/aclocal/gimp-2.0.m4/tyr' > changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx) > > It shows that the permissions have been changed correctly. > But they are not shown as changed when I ls the same folder. > > $ ls -lg /usr/local/share/ > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x =A0 =A03 wiseguy =A0Administ =A0 =A0 =A0 =A00 Jul 28 17:14 acl= ocal > > Is there something funky going on? No. Woe32 file system attributes simply don't match the *nix model `ls'=20 expects. You should be able to access the files, as you require; don't=20 place too much faith in the permissions shown by `ls'. Regards, Keith. |