Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:03:52 06/24/02
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On June 24, 2002 at 21:49:46, Slater Wold wrote: >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 * >.*". No point in the CD/CHMOD. when you use the -R option, that is "recursive" and says to change the directory, all files in the directory, all sub-directories in the directory... etc.. That will get them _all_. And you probably broke something because you removed important bits that might be needed, such as setuid/setgid to name a couple... > >>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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