chmod problem

[municipal]

Hi
I have a root eqivalent permission but when i create a file it is not executable and i can not change it to executable.

look down at the "ls" and "chmod" reply.
any suggestion??
TIA
-rw-rw-r-- 1 guy aaaaagroup 6 Apr 24 14:51 aa
kti:/u/guy: rm aaa
kti:/u/guy: chmod 777 aa
chmod: 777: No such file or directory

 

[ianf]

You can't chmod a file that doesn't exist.
Put the file where you want it, then chmod (don't bother with the rm) Ian

"IF" is not a word it's a way of life

 

[municipal]

Hi
here is more clarification
in .profile i found the sentece and i dont want to change it
alias -x chmod="sudo /usr/ucb/chmod 664"

The file exist
to any chmod with 777 i get the reply:
chmod: 777: No such file or directory

 

[grega]

It looks to me like you have aliased your chmod command to use a default of 664, i.e. when you type chmod, what you are actually doing is sudo /usr/ucb/chmod 664 <parameters>

So when you do chmod 777 aaa, you're doing -
sudo /usr/ucb/chmod 664 777 aaa

The command is therefore looking for a file called 777 which doesn't exist.

I don't you why you have chmod aliased in this way?? but if you want to use the standard chmod, then you'll need to either ...

1) use the full path, so /usr/ucb/chmod 777 aaa should work

2) create another alias in your .profile to only so a chmod, e.g. alias -c mychmod=&quot;sudo /usr/ucb/chmod&quot;

Greg.

 

[grega]

... excuse the errors in the above post .. but you know what I mean

Greg.

 

[municipal]

HI Grega,
Thanks it work fine
by..