Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!reading!minster!john
From: john@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: ST Minix executable file permissions
Message-ID: <604750724.17899@minster.york.ac.uk>
Date: 1 Mar 89 10:18:44 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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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