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Ok I give up!

Ok I give up!

2006-12-05       - By Steven J. Yellin

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On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, JohnH wrote:

>
> -- -- Original Message -- --
> From: "Cameron Simpson" <cs@(protected)>
> To: "Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)" <shrike-list@(protected)>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 5:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Ok I give up!
>
>
>
> > Um, please show us "ls -ld the-directory-pathname".
>
> drwx-- ---   17   john     john        4086     Oct 23    23:28
>
   This means that you, on your machine, have permission to do anything
you want with this directory, but nobody else can even read it.  Try

chmod -R a+r the-directory-pathname

to make the directory and all its contents readable (but not writeable) by
everyone.  Or do

chmod -R a+rw the-directory-pathname

to make the directory and its contents both readable and writeable by
everyone.  Try "man chmod" for more information on the chmod
command.




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