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

Author: Andrzej Nagorko

Date: 23:32:18 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 *
>.*".

  "chmod 777 *.*" changes attributes only on files that have dot in their name.
Try "chmod 777 *", it might work better.

Andrzej

>
>>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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