From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 12 16:47:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19233 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 16:47:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA19219 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 16:47:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA05896; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 20:22:12 GMT (envelope-from nik) Message-ID: <19981212202212.51085@nothing-going-on.org> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 20:22:12 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: "Mark W. Krentel" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file modes in CVS repository References: <199812120237.VAA05729@dreamscape.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199812120237.VAA05729@dreamscape.com>; from Mark W. Krentel on Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 09:37:41PM -0500 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 09:37:41PM -0500, Mark W. Krentel wrote: > I'm wondering about the permissions on files checked out of the CVS > repository from Attic directories. I noticed this while updating > my /etc files from 2.2.7 to 2.2.8. In my repository, everything > in /home/ncvs/src/etc/Attic has mode 0444, so /usr/src/etc/daily, > weekly, and monthly checked out as 0644. I updated /etc with these > new versions, and thus they didn't have execute permission. You probably didn't update /etc properly. You can't just copy the files in from /usr/src/etc and have it work. Please take a look at for more information. N -- C.R.F. Consulting -- we're run to make me richer. . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message