[aklug] Re: chmod

Is this data dump drive something you're mounting? If so, what about using
the fmask and dmask options with dmask=000 and fmask=022? That would set
all the directories to 777 and the files to 755.

Chris

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Scott A. Johnson <scott.a.johnson@gmail.com
> wrote:

> I have tens of thousands of files nested inside several thousand
> directories on a data dump drive. I need to set different chmod levels for
> the files inside the directories, but a different chmod for the directories
> themselves. Example, the directories need to be 777 while the files are
> 755. Can I do this easily? Luckily I don't need to set different chmod
> levels for different/various files and/or directories. ALL the files
> should be 755 - ALL the directories 777. Unfortunatley: "sh# chmod -R 777
> /" doesn't work since it will set the directories and files to be the same.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott
>
> --
> Scott A. Johnson
> scott.a.johnson@gmail.com
>

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Received on Tue Feb 12 22:01:36 2013