chmod not working

1998-04-23 Thread Alain Toussaint
i was messing with some permission to directory but i think i found a bug in chmod,i try to run chmod 751 on my home directory (i put the content of the home directory on another partition because of lack of space on my root partition),but the permission is still drwxr-x--x,i even tried to run

Re: chmod not working

1998-04-23 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
i was messing with some permission to directory but i think i found a bug in chmod,i try to run chmod 751 on my home directory (i put the content of the home directory on another partition because of lack of space on my root partition),but the permission is still drwxr-x--x,i even tried to

Re: chmod not working

1998-04-23 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Alain Toussaint [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i was messing with some permission to directory but i think i found a bug in chmod,i try to run chmod 751 on my home directory (i put the content of the home directory on another partition because of lack of space on my root partition),but the

Re: chmod not working

1998-04-23 Thread Alain Toussaint
I think that you must think that 'drwxr-x--x' means something different than it does. Seeing this permission in ls means that the user (owner) of the directory has read, write, and execute privileges, that people in the same group as the owner have read and execute privileges, and that

Re: chmod not working

1998-04-23 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
i was messing with some permission to directory but i think i found a bug in chmod,i try to run chmod 751 on my home directory (i put the content of the home directory on another partition because of lack of space on my root partition),but the permission is still drwxr-x--x,i even tried to run

Re: chmod not working

1998-04-23 Thread Alain Toussaint
I think you have misunderstood some of what has been said in the replies, doing a chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o=x or chmod 751 on a directody will give it the permissions of drwxr-x--x as you say it has, so to me it looks like chmod had done what you asked. It may help us if you told us what you