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RE: cygwin CHMOD CHOWN problem.
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: cygwin CHMOD CHOWN problem.
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 15:51:36 -0400
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Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: siddug [mailto:siddug@indiatimes.com]
> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 2:55 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@xfree.cygwin.com
> Subject: cygwin CHMOD CHOWN problem.
>
> Hi,
> I Tried to do CHMOD and CHOWN on some of my files but the permissions
> are not changing. may i know the reason?
>
> below given is a small log:
>
> [SUBTLE]~$ touch try
> [SUBTLE]~$ chmod -v 755 try
> mode of `try' changed to 0755 (rwxr-xr-x)
> [SUBTLE]~$ ls -l
> total 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 siddug 544 0 Sep 9 00:36 try
> [SUBTLE]~$
>
> Can u give me suggestions?
> I wanna know why it's happening like that?
>
> I tried somethings like adding more users in /etc/passwd or /etc/group
>
> In anticipation,
> Regards,
> Sidd
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