Hi all, I have an interesting problem, I could not find the answer for this in the last three years ( since I first installed Linux). When I copy a file from a Windoze partition (or I have a CD with linux rpms, which was created under windoze) to a Linux partition, the file has executable attributes in all three places (owner, group, the rest of the world). Even if it is an rpm file or a tgz or even a backed up XF86Config file... This could be very annoying sometimes eg. when you backup your linux stuff on FAT32 partition (I use this file system for my data, because I need to acces this stuff under Windoze as well), install a new linux version and want to install your linux files again from the windoze partition. I have to chmod them first, the I can start working with them (especially if I use Midnight Commander, and want to just tap on the tgz file to unpack, nothing happens, MC does not recognize the file as packed file, rather it tries to run it, unsuccesfully, because this in not a real exec file, it just looks like that, by the attribute. So, my question is: what should I do in order to get the right attributes (i.e. non-executable) for those rpms, tgz-s etc coming back to linux from a FAT partition? Appreciate your answer. Regards: Viktor
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