Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Preserving Unix permissions on overwrite
From: Paul Krohn (krohn@examiner.com)
Date: Thu Jan 28 1999 - 11:37:12 EST
>I've noticed that afpd turns off the Unix executable bits when
>overwriting, for example, a perl script. This is an annoyance,
>because then you have to go to a shell to put the bits back.
>
>The man pages and FAQs don't say anything about this. Is preserving
>the bits on an existing file just not an option?
>
i've worked around this by making scripts have .pl extensions, and
mapping .pl to TEXT R*ch so i can dubl-click & edit in bbedit. thought i
was the only person not using vi!
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Paul Krohn
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