Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 11:07:01 -0500 From: "Mikhail Evstiounin" <evstiounin@adelphia.net> To: "Alfred Perlstein" <bright@wintelcom.net>, "James A Wilde" <james.wilde@telia.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: chmod command doesn't work was: chmod: invalid file mode: 04711 Message-ID: <006401bf5f72$8fac2fc0$d0353018@evstiouninadelphia.net.pit.adelphia.net>
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Before we proceed there, I'd like to know if your chmod is the real one - what I mean if you running executable from the right place and there is no alias in your shell. In some shells you can use "type" command type chmod which is alias, if my memory servers me right, to where command (or whence? - too many Unixes). -----Original Message----- From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: James A Wilde <james.wilde@telia.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Saturday, January 15, 2000 6:46 AM Subject: Re: chmod command doesn't work was: chmod: invalid file mode: 04711 >* 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 > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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