From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 7 18: 3: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rjk191.rh.psu.edu (RJK191.rh.psu.edu [128.118.193.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B61BF37BF02 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 18:02:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ray@rjk191.rh.psu.edu) Received: (from ray@localhost) by rjk191.rh.psu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA13804 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 21:02:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ray) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 21:02:52 -0400 From: Ray Kohler To: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: chmod question Message-ID: <20000407210252.A13756@rjk191.rh.psu.edu> Reply-To: rjk191@psu.edu References: <000001bfa0e5$d30c0b00$0300000a@cmr.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <000001bfa0e5$d30c0b00$0300000a@cmr.net>; from mark@dsl-gw2-dhcp-a78.clsp.uswest.net on Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 05:05:53PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 05:05:53PM -0600, Mark wrote: > I have a directory: /dos with rwx for root and r-x for wheel and r-- > for the rest. > My username is part of the wheel group and I want to change > permissions so wheel can also write to this directory. I use chmod 774 > /dos, but when I do a ls -l nothing has changed. I perform this as > su'd to root. If you unmount /dos before running chmod then it will work. -- Ray Kohler FreeBSD -- The Power to Serve "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." -- Winston Churchill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message