Re: Help with chmod

[Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>]

You wouldn't be trying this on an MS filesystem, would you?
(Extended permissions are not supported by any FAT variant.)

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevinc grainsystems com


biscut wrote:
> 
> I seem to be having a problem with chmod, whenever I try to set chmod 777
> <file-name> then the file permissions never seem to change, i.e they stay as
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x readme.txt
> 
> if I try to chmod on a directory then I keep getting operation not permitted
> errors even though I am root, I get operation not permitted errors if I try
> to use chown as well, has anyone got any idea's why this could be happening
> please ?? I have looked at man chmod but that doesnt seem to give me any
> clues as to why this is happening.
> 
> thanks for any help
> 
> Regards
> biscut
> 
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