On 8/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay, well that was weird. Apparently you need executable permissions > on the directory that this archive file is in.
In Unix, read permissions on a directory mean that you can look at a directory listing, but you may or may not be able to access files inside it. *Execute* permissions on a directory allow you to access files inside it if you know their name. Thus r-x permissions allow you to access any file (because you can read the directory listing to find all the filenames), while --x permissions would allow you only to access the names of files you know about beforehand (because, say, they're specified in a spec somewhere). But with --x permissions, you can't list the directory to find out what other files it contains. Anyway, I hope that helps you understand why you had to set the execute bit on the directory. -- Robin Munn [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key 0xD6497014
