From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 31 14:31:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F77014BF9 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 14:31:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA66468; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 17:34:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199910312234.RAA66468@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: chmod on zip disk In-Reply-To: from Jeff Gray at "Oct 31, 1999 02:01:22 pm" To: jwg@netbox.com (Jeff Gray) Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 17:34:29 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (Questions at FreeBSD) Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeff Gray wrote, > 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. Does the disk have an MS-DOS filesystem? MS-DOS FS does not support file mode bits or ownership. See mount_msdos(8). -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message