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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 13:35:06 -0500
To: "Vincent Labella" <vlabella AT uark DOT edu>, cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: chmod not working
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At 01:14 PM 2/6/2001, 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, but if you check out the FAQ and/or user guide and/or the mail archives,
you'll find the information you're looking for.  The relevant FAQ entry can
be found at:

"Why doesn't chmod work?"
http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC37



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