john@minster.york.ac.uk (03/01/89)
I'm posting the text below for a couple of undergraduates here. I
havn't checked this one myself. Please reply to them, not me.
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Reply-To: seismo!mcvax!ukc!minster!Orion2!pf-a
Help! We seem to be having a little (:-) ) trouble with file permissions on
ST minix. Binaries which would conventionally be mode 0711 (rwx--x--x) on a
Unix system have to be mode 755 (rwxr-xr-x) before they can be run; why is
this so? More to the point is there a quick fix for it.
Is there anyone else out there who's used ST minix enough to have come across
this? We've tried this on two machines. Same results- binaries have to have
the r bits on. THIS IS WRONG!!!!
Pete ("the Zog") Fenelon