On Thursday 08 March 2007 04:43, Bob Warren wrote: > As you can see, executable permission has now become independent of the > user. If you try changing this option when the program is on the > pendrive itself, it won't work. I tried copying the program to the > Desktop and altering the executable permission there. It works. But if > you copy the program back to the pendrive, the executable permission is > removed.
It looks like they are trying to improve security for removable drives... shame they are crippling such important functionality! I can't imagine that they would do this without some way for the user to manually fix this for a program they specifically want to run. Make lots of noise on the ubuntu forums and see if you can get an answer. > I don't know how to alter the permissions of Rev progs on pendrives from > the terminal. As root user on terminal you could try: chmod +x /media/KINGSTON/Revolution/revolution.x86 or chmod 777 /media/KINGSTON/Revolution/revolution.x86 Good luck, Rishi. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
