Re: command-line tweaking of Open With... settings?

2005-04-24 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Apr 23, 2005, at 9:32 PM, Rich Morin wrote: If I do this, then Drag-copy the App to the Applications folder, the magic takes effect. I'd rather keep the App where it is, however. Is there an easy way to tell OSX to pay attention to the Info.plist? Have you tried this from the end user's

newbie question about chmod

2005-04-24 Thread Marc Manthey
hello experts , i like to run a little perl app , but it said always Permission denied marxg4:~ marxg4$ /Users/marxg4/Desktop/dbeacon -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] -n let.de -b ff1e::1:f00d:beac -bash: /Users/marxg4/Desktop/dbeacon: Permission denied when i type: marxg4:~ marxg4$ chown -R marxg4

Re: newbie question about chmod

2005-04-24 Thread John Delacour
At 7:53 pm +0200 24/4/05, Marc Manthey wrote: when i type: marxg4:~ marxg4$ chown -R marxg4 /Users/marxg4/Desktop/dbeacon chown: /Users/marxg4/Desktop/dbeacon: Operation not permitted Operation not permitted what can i do ? The programm needs no administrator rights. Here are two ways to run

Re: newbie question about chmod

2005-04-24 Thread Trey Harris
JD, What you write isn't true, unless your umask is set to an odd value (I mean 'odd' both literally and figuratively). Did you try it? perl temp.pl will work, but ./temp.pl won't--you can only execute an executable file. In the perl temp.pl case, temp.pl isn't being executed--it's data that

Writing Configure scripts in Perl

2005-04-24 Thread Tommy Nordgren
What are the tools I need to get to be able to build configure scipts in perl. I wan't to be able to automatically determine the set of tools avaible, and generate make files for my projects. Some tools generate a shell script, but I've seen other open source packages where the config script is

Re: newbie question about chmod

2005-04-24 Thread John Delacour
At 11:50 am -0700 24/4/05, Trey Harris wrote: What you write isn't true, unless your umask is set to an odd value (I mean 'odd' both literally and figuratively). Did you try it? perl temp.pl will work, but ./temp.pl won't Yes I tried it and it worked just as I copied the session to my email.

Re: newbie question about chmod

2005-04-24 Thread Trey Harris
Well, you're running *chown*, which changes ownership--you should be running 'chmod'. Only root can run chown, so you need administrator rights for chown, but not chmod. Try chmod +x Desktop/dbeacon instead. (The '-R' recursive flag is unnecessary on regular files, you just need it on

chmod not working on firewire drive

2005-04-24 Thread William Goedicke
Dear Y'all - I'm having a disquieting experience in which I can't remove write permission (i.e. bash$ chmod a-x filespec) on my firewire drive. I've sudoed to no avail. Any ideas? - Billy William Goedicke [EMAIL

Re: chmod not working on firewire drive

2005-04-24 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Apr 24, 2005, at 6:20 PM, William Goedicke wrote: I'm having a disquieting experience in which I can't remove write permission (i.e. bash$ chmod a-x filespec) on my firewire drive. I've sudoed to no avail. Any ideas? Use Disk Utility to have a look at the volume(s) on the drive. If it's a