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Re: chmod not working



> 
> i was messing with some permission to directory but i think i found a bug
> in chmod,i try to run "chmod 751" on my home directory (i put the content
> of the home directory on another partition because of lack of space on my
> root partition),but the permission is still drwxr-x--x,i even tried to run

Isn't that exactly what 751 means?  The excute bit is 1, the write bit
is 2, and the read bit is 4, so 7=4+2+1=r+w+x, 5=4+1=r+x, 1=x.
What's the problem?

Eric


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