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Re: Newbie confused about chmod


On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 05:57:42PM +0000, Greg Chicares wrote:
>On 2011-02-15 16:52Z, hardya wrote:
>[...]
>> Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples
>> $ chmod -v 777 Simulation
>> mode of `Simulation' changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx)
>> 
>> Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples
>> $ ls -l Simulation
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 Andrew Hardy Administrators 238835 Oct 28  2005 Simulation
>
>Could that be due to a space in your username?
>  http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.name-with-space

Actually, we should stop trying to guess and insist on the information
requested here:

http://cygwin.com/problems.html

In particular, cygcheck output would probably be very instructive since
I suspect either a FAT32 filesystem or CYGWIN=nontsec setting.

This page also suggests that a subject like "Newbie blah isn't very
helpful.

cgf

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