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Date:      Sun, 31 Oct 1999 17:34:29 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        jwg@netbox.com (Jeff Gray)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (Questions at FreeBSD)
Subject:   Re: chmod on zip disk
Message-ID:  <199910312234.RAA66468@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910311356590.13489-100000@cm-24-142-61-16.cableco-op.ispchannel.com> from Jeff Gray at "Oct 31, 1999 02:01:22 pm"

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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


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