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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:46:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Mario Ohnewald <mario DOT ohnewald AT gmx DOT de>
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Subject: Re: chmod in cygwin shell
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On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Mario Ohnewald wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I cant set the x bit to my files. I am the user who installed cygwin and who
> dowloaded thee files which i want
> to make executeable now.
>
> $ ls -All
> total 1698
> -rw-r--r--    1 install  None      1737960 Feb 15  2002 rpm
> ---> not executable yet
>
>
> $ chmod.exe +x rpm
>
> install AT cygwin ~/rpm/bin
> $ ls -All
> total 1698
> -rw-r--r--    1 install  None      1737960 Feb 15  2002 rpm
> --> still not executeable
>
>
> I have full windows right on these files.
> Any hint/tip?
>
> Cheers, Mario

Mario,

Did you by any chance mount your home directory as non-executable (with
the -E option)?  Run 'mount', and see if your home directory (or
whatever's up the directory tree from there) has the 'noexec' flag.
	Igor
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