Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <397DBA90.5C2D5B18@cygnus.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 18:04:32 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen Reply-To: cygwin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14-SMP i686) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Purdom, Rick W." CC: "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" Subject: Re: b15:chmod does not work References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Purdom, Rick W." wrote: > > chmod will only add/remove the write permission for the owner of the file - > no others are > affected even though chmod verbose reports that they were changed This is expected behaviour if your are either using FAT filesystem or NTFS without setting the CYGWIN env variable to contain the string `ntsec' (besides possible others). Try reading the online documentation: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/docs.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Developer Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com