Greg Lopp on Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:40:56 -0400 |
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 03:22:22PM -0400, Paul wrote: > >Uh... but 600 would be read and write, no execute. > >The octal bits are 1 for execute, 2 for write, and 4 for read. > So it would be 500 for r-x. Ug. What if we just take away all > permissions, then use "chmod u+rx targetname"? I know that that > notation has limitations, but in this case it would make things very > clear and simple. Don't bother to take them away first and just do "chmod u=rx targetname" instead. Confessed ignorance : What are the limitations of the "chmod [OPTION]... MODE[,MODE]... FILE..." notation? ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug
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