From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20595 invoked by alias); 15 Feb 2011 18:04:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 20582 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Feb 2011 18:04:03 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_YG,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nm2-vm0.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (HELO nm2-vm0.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com) (98.139.52.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:03:59 +0000 Received: from [98.139.52.191] by nm2.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Feb 2011 18:03:57 -0000 Received: from [74.6.228.37] by tm4.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Feb 2011 18:03:57 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp106.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Feb 2011 18:03:57 -0000 Received: from cgf.cx (cgf@173.76.57.204 with login) by smtp106.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Feb 2011 10:03:56 -0800 PST X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Received: from ednor.cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 677C813C0CA for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:03:56 -0500 (EST) Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 6231F2B352; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:03:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:04:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Newbie confused about chmod Message-ID: <20110215180356.GB20118@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <30931008.post@talk.nabble.com> <30932818.post@talk.nabble.com> <4D5ABE96.7000604@sbcglobal.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D5ABE96.7000604@sbcglobal.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg00391.txt.bz2 On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 05:57:42PM +0000, Greg Chicares wrote: >On 2011-02-15 16:52Z, hardya wrote: >[...] >> Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples >> $ chmod -v 777 Simulation >> mode of `Simulation' changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx) >> >> Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples >> $ ls -l Simulation >> -rw-r--r-- 1 Andrew Hardy Administrators 238835 Oct 28 2005 Simulation > >Could that be due to a space in your username? > http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.name-with-space Actually, we should stop trying to guess and insist on the information requested here: http://cygwin.com/problems.html In particular, cygcheck output would probably be very instructive since I suspect either a FAT32 filesystem or CYGWIN=nontsec setting. This page also suggests that a subject like "Newbie blah isn't very helpful. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple