'chmod: not all requested changes were made '

[geoff]

I recently ran into this error message from chmod, never seen anything like
it before.
Does anyone know what's going on here ?

Following is cmd line transcript::

howard> mkdir xxx
howard> ls -ld xxx
drwxrwsr-x 2 howard other 512 Jan 03 13:01 xxx
howard> chmod 777 xxx
0481-014 chmod: not all requested changes were made to xxx
howard> ls -ld xxx
drwxrwxrwx 2 howard other 512 Jan 03 13:01 xxx
howard>

[lam...@my-deja.com]

Geoff,
That is normal you have no problem with the message.
It means that you just create new directory without any file in it when
the changes made.
So the command just changed for the directory only but not the files or
subdirectroy when restored or created later onto it.

Cheers......Lamris P

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[bob]

Really not too sure here, we get this aswell sometimes,
probably the acl's

bret

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[geoff]

The problem is that we have an existing project with numerous Makefiles
having this 'mkdir - chmod' combination. It used to work and we're trying
to determine what's changed to produce this error because it kills make.
The alternative is to modify all the makefiles to ignore the chmod error, a
non trivial task based on the size of the project.
But thanks to you and bob for your input.

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[lam...@my-deja.com]

Try use "chmod -R 777 * "

La's

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[Tony Curtis]

>> On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 13:53:26 -0500,
>> "geoff" <geoff_...@bmc.com> said:

> I recently ran into this error message from chmod, never
> seen anything like it before. Does anyone know what's
> going on here ?
> Following is cmd line transcript::

> chmod 777 xxx

> 0481-014 chmod: not all requested changes were made to xxx

This may occur because an ACL is more restrictive. Try
"aclget xxx" and "aclget ." (and .. too) and see what it
says.

It could also be something to do with the parent directory
(or parents). Maybe they have more restrictive
permissions, belong to someone else (and thus you are
seeing owner/group related messages from chmod) or are
grpid (this last paragraph is pure speculation on my
part).

hth
t
--
Eih bennek, eih blavek.

[Norman Levin]

lam...@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> Try use "chmod -R 777 * "

** you MUST BE KIDDING ****
chmod - recursive - the most DANGEROUS command in anybodys hands.
do NOT DO THIS.

--
Norman Levin