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Subject: Re: A Unix question. (Slightly off-topic)

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 18:49:46 06/24/02

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On June 24, 2002 at 20:27:42, Russell Reagan wrote:

>Are you sure that the permissions of the entire *contents* of the directory were
>set to 777? A common mistake (at least for me) is to chmod the directory and not
>it's contents.

From / I ran "chmod -R 777 programs"  and then I "cd /programs" and "chmod 777 *
.*".

>Also, you should be careful to chmod everything to 777. You don't want
>everything to be executable.

It's all text files.  Unless I am missing something, nothing has ever had a
problem being "777".

>Russell



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