X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 19:18:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Eric Lilja cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Access rights for directories In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Eric Lilja wrote: > Hello, I'm using rxvt and I'm having a problem that folders I create (I > create both from inside rxvt and using explorer) have different rights > and thus are color-coded differently by rxvt. First I thought that > directories created using cygwin's mkdir got one set of access rights > and those created using explorer got another set. But I just tried in a > test directory and the two directories got the same (the correct) access > rights..so I don't know exactly when this occurs. > > $ ls -al > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x+ 4 mikael None 0 Jun 1 00:33 ./ > drwxrwxrwx+ 10 mikael None 0 Jun 1 00:33 ../ > drwxr-xr-x+ 2 mikael None 0 Jun 1 00:31 fromcygwin/ > drwxr-xr-x+ 2 mikael None 0 Jun 1 00:33 fromexplorer/ > > The only weird looking directory is the special .., and it's color-coded > blue-on-green instead of blue-on-black. And I created test using > mkdir...anyone know what's going on and is there a way to make sure all > directories are created using the same access rights unless I explicitly > state differently? It's not rxvt that's coloring your directories -- it's ls (via the DIR_COLORS mechanism). The default colors have changed in the new coreutils, and are coloring world-writeable directories (which is what Explorer creates by default) differently. You can turn that off by editing /etc/DIR_COLORS to change the lines that contain "OTHER_WRITABLE" to STICKY_OTHER_WRITABLE 01;34 # dir that is sticky and other-writable (+t,o+w) OTHER_WRITABLE 01;34 # dir that is other-writable (o+w) and not sticky that will color those directories the same as your normal ones. You will also need to uncomment the bit in your /etc/profile that says eval "`/usr/bin/dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS`" The only caveat is that the /etc/DIR_COLORS that comes with coreutils isn't quite the default directory colors, so you'll see some other weird changes in directory colors. You can also use "dircolors -p" to print the current database, and then change the above 2 values. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/