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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: James A Wilde <james.wilde@telia.com>
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Subject: Re: chmod command doesn't work was: chmod: invalid file mode: 04711
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* James A Wilde <james.wilde@telia.com> [000115 03:39] wrote:
> Sorry to harp but I've been experimenting a bit with this.  I had an idea at
> the back of my mind that I had seen similar behaviour before.
> 
> The chmod command does not appear to work at all on this machine.  I have
> gone in as root on the console and typed the following:
> 
> mkdir test
> chown james test
> chmod 04711 test
> chmod 4711 test
> chmod 711 test
> chown root test
> chmod 04711 test
> chmod 4711 test
> chmod 711 test
> chmod 644 test
> 
> I used 644 in the last case since this is the example in 'man chmod'.
> 
> In every case of the chmod command I get:
> 
> 'chmod: invalid file mode: nnnnn' -  where nnnnn is the 3-5 digit number I
> have listed above.
> 
> So my problem is not with installing ssh2 but with the chmod command.  Does
> anyone have any suggestions?

have a look at or share with us the output of 'truss' or 'ktrace' on
the chmod, or run it the debugger.

-Alfred


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