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To: Jim Dennis <jimd@mistery.mcafee.com>
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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: chmod 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 23 Apr 1996 17:25:59 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 22:20:43 +0100
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Jim Dennis wrote in message ID
<199604240025.RAA00909@mistery.mcafee.com>:
> > 
> > What numbers should I use for this - chmod o+w filename?

> 	o+w *adds* the write permission -- chmod with a 
> 	numeric *sets* the permission.  Thus (given):

> -r--r--r--   1 jimd     users        1024 Apr  9 14:29 foo

> 	The command 'chmod o+x foo' would result in:

> -rw-r--r--   1 jimd     users        1024 Apr  9 14:29 foo

That should be:

-rw-r--r-x   1 jimd     users        1024 Apr  9 14:29 foo

surely?

Gary
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