Thread: chmod does not work on N900
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les_garten is offline les_garten
2010-03-21 , 17:54
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Originally Posted by acano View Post
I compiled a file using the scratchbox on the frematle-armel target. And I save it directly to the MyDocs folder of my N900.

When I try to execute it I am not able because it has execution permission. I make "sudo gainroot" and execute "chmod a+x program" but it does not let me to execute it. Pleasee, could someone tell me the reason.

Thanks!
UNIX permissions don't do anything on a FAT partition. MyDocs is a FAT partition. Move it up a dir or two and set permissions and +x flg.
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