From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 31 14: 7:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cm-24-142-61-16.cableco-op.ispchannel.com (cm-24-142-61-16.cableco-op.ispchannel.com [24.142.61.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC60C14F2A for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 14:07:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwg@netbox.com) Received: from localhost (jwg@localhost) by cm-24-142-61-16.cableco-op.ispchannel.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA14673 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 14:01:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwg@netbox.com) X-Authentication-Warning: cm-24-142-61-16.cableco-op.ispchannel.com: jwg owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 14:01:22 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Gray X-Sender: jwg@cm-24-142-61-16.cableco-op.ispchannel.com To: Questions at FreeBSD Subject: chmod on zip disk Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hmmmmm.... My Iomega zip disk works fine, for both read and write, except, 1. as root if I chmod nothing happens. # chmod 664 readme.txt # ll total 29506 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8399 Oct 31 10:34 calendar -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 30198060 Oct 31 13:06 piiijwgr.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4079 Feb 15 1995 readme.txt 2. the files are being created as executables even though my umask sets files, as root, as 644 Suggestions welcomed. Thanks Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message