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files are executable by default

This is probably a dumb question with a (hopefully) simple solution. Whenever I copy new files onto my computer, from a cd or usb drive for example, they end up as executable and I am constantly having to run chmod to fix that for image files and things that shouldn't be executable. I am using Slackware 10 with fluxbox as my wm and Rox Filer for a file manager. Or is this an fstab issue? Here's mine just in case:

Code:

/dev/hda5        swap            swap        defaults        0  0

/dev/hda3        /                ext2        defaults        1  1

/dev/hda6        /home            ext2        defaults        1  2

/dev/hda1        /mnt/windoze    ntfs        ro,umask=0      0  0

/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom      iso9660    noauto,users,ro  0  0

/dev/fd0          /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner    0  0

devpts              /dev/pts        devpts      gid=5,mode=620  0  0

proc                /proc            proc        defaults        0  0



/dev/external  /mnt/external    ext2        noauto,users,rw  0  0

/dev/hde1        /mnt/flash      auto        noauto,users    0  0

/dev/usbkey    /mnt/usbkey      vfat      noauto,users,rw  0  0

Cheers!
-geomatt

i believe this is a problem with the umask, but does it really matter whether the files permissions set it to be executable

if this is really a problem, open a terminal and type in umask 122, then copy the files using that terminal using the cp command

i still dont know why it matters whether they are executable or not, but w/e

--adam

Thanks for the response. I know it kind of seems like a silly issue, but it seems to matter for Rox filer - I dunno if you are familiar with it, but it requires that file associations be spelled out manually and then refuses to open executable files in the specified program. So if I associate .jpg files with Gimp, for ex., it'll only open them in Gimp if they are non-x.

I could just ditch Rox, but it is lightweight and has some other things I like.

I'll go read up on umask.

-geomatt