files are executable by default

geomatt · 12-13-2004, 09:22 PM

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

adamwenner · 12-13-2004, 10:55 PM

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

geomatt · 12-13-2004, 11:21 PM

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