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 Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:54:25 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: chmod not working Message-ID: <20010206195425.C15821@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from vlabella@uark.edu on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:14:13PM -0600 On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:14:13PM -0600, Vincent Labella wrote: > Hello, > After applying the recent updates I can't get chmod to work. > > chmod a+x test.pl > does nothing > > with -v option I get > mode of test.pl changed to 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) > > but ls -la gives: > -rw-r--r-- 1 administ None 4795 Feb 6 12:06 test.pl > > any suggestions? is this a mounting issue? No chance on FAT, only NTFS supports UNIX like modes and only when the env var CYGWIN contains "ntsec". http://cygwin.com/docs.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple