Author: Peter Berger
Date: 16:12:23 05/09/01
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On May 09, 2001 at 18:58:28, Slater Wold wrote: >I recently installed Linux on a spare computer, to run crafty from. I know very >little about Linux. > >I was having a problem running crafty, and asked a friend what to do. (He isn't >an expert, but knows more than me.) He told me to type (as root, from root) >"chmod 777 * .* -R". I did. Talking about friends ;-) ... > >Now I can see that the groups are ALL messed up, That is to be expected . and what's worse is, when I try >to become root, login as root, su someone (su - soinso), or chmod, chown, chgrp, >anything, I cannot. Says, "Unable to set group; operation is prohibited." Hmm ; now that's weird - I don't know much about LINUX but this is _not_ to be expected as a result of your "experiment" in a UNIX environment IMHO . In >other words, I CANNOT LOGIN AS ROOT. My whole system is basically frozen as far >as doing ANYTHING. I've talked to several people, and NO ONE can help. > >Please help! > > >Slate Somewhat off-topic here ; maybe someone answers with a helpful email though - if not , try some LINUX newsgroups - there are some people hanging around there all the time just waiting for this to happen ; someone who messed up and needs help . Best wishes. pete
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