From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: Good: dos2unix and unix2dos all these utilies are not retaining the file permission. Always it is seeting to u+rw only. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dos2unix-3.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a file with permission -rwxrwxrwx ( chmod 777 test.txt ) 2. execute dos2unix against the file (dos2unix text.txt) 3. now, check for the file permission. it will -rw------- Actual Results: Original file permission is not retained, it is getting changed. Expected Results: File permission should not be changed.. Should retain the original settings. Additional info: This we can also consider as an Enhancement, it is in the way how we are taking into. I can also fix this issue,( as the fix is very small ) if I can have the CVS access to this utility.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91331 ***
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-195.html