Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:32:39 +1030 From: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A question from a convert from Windows to FreeBSD Message-ID: <02012512323903.01099@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> In-Reply-To: <012001c1a4f8$9fb5eff0$c42a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> References: <0ffe01c1a371$661d1b20$6600640a@attbi.com> <20020124134552.F16D93F56@i8k.babbleon.org> <012001c1a4f8$9fb5eff0$c42a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
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On Friday 25 January 2002 03:30, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> > To: <bastill@sa.apana.org.au>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 5:45 AM > Subject: Re: A question from a convert from Windows to FreeBSD > > > to chmod (which means to change permissions, by the way--not sure > > why it's called "chmod") or anything else to get it to work for a > > regular user, and I > > It's called "chmod" because you are "changing the mode". Although > the command will accept arguments like +r and -x, what you are > actually doing is changing the numeric mode of a file. In each > group, the "r" is worth 4, the "w" worth 2, and the "x" is worth 1. > There are more such as the suid bit but these are the basics. So in > this file, > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 11158 Apr 20 1998 pdf_sec.ps > > the mode is 644. And in this file, > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3545 Jan 8 11:30 znew > > the mode is 555. Well I never! Try searching for that in a reference book if you are as ignorant as I am! Thanks very much. -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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