[X-Unix] setting groups OSX Panther

Philip Ershler ershler at cvrti.utah.edu
Sat Jan 3 21:41:37 PST 2004


If you've tried the suggestion below and it still won't let you change 
things, try this

sudo chflags nouchg Audio\ 1_02.wav

and so on.

HTH Phil

On Jan 3, 2004, at 10:26 PM, Thomas W Noel wrote:

>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I copied some files off a CD ROM to my HD and they showed up like :
>>
>> -rw-rw-rw-   1 davidgil  unknown  40653710 20 Dec 11:44 Audio 1_02.wav
>> -rw-rw-rw-   1 davidgil  unknown   9124092 20 Dec 11:38 Audio 2_01.wav
>> -rw-rw-rw-   1 davidgil  unknown  40653710 20 Dec 11:44 Audio 2_02.wav
>> -rw-rw-rw-   1 davidgil  unknown   9124092 20 Dec 11:38 Audio 3_01.wav
>> -rw-rw-rw-   1 davidgil  unknown  40653710 20 Dec 11:44 Audio 3_02.wav
>>
>>
>> Now I can not rename them in the finder (for some unknown reason),
>> and would like to also change the group settings to the example below:
>>
>>
>> -rw-r--r--   1 davidgil  staff     4816445 15 Dec 23:22 DLS61aMac.sit
>>
>> I am guessing that this will solve the problem with renaming.
>>
>> How do I do this (I am in Panther using Bash shell)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dave
>  dadvidgil%    chgrp staff (filename)		see man chgp
>
> davidgil%	  chmod 644 (filename)		see man chmod
>
> Tom
>
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