Author: Sven Reichard
Date: 01:15:44 06/25/02
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On June 24, 2002 at 20:13:16, Slater Wold wrote: >A ran into a problem today with a system running SCO 5.0.5m. I can not figure >it out, and it's driving me nuts. (Yes, I have looked on the 'Net, I can't find >anything.) > >I logon as root, and I go into "/programs" and type "ls" I see a list of files. >They are owned by several different users, with several different permissions, >types, sizes, etc. I chmod *everything* 777. (From root, I type, "chmod -R 777 >programs".) > >Then I logon as another user, slate, and go into that same exact directory >"/programs" and type "ls". It gives me a list of *SOME* of the files. (About >70%.) If I type "ls <anything>*" it will tell me "no such file or directory". > >Basically, there are a handful of files, that are virtually "hidden" to all >other users except root. Even after chmod'ing everything 777. > > >Any ideas? > >I appreciate any response. Slater, can you do the following: Log on as root, go to /programs, and then type which ls ls -l Then log on as yourself (or any ordinary user) and do the same thing. Post the output in both cases, maybe then we can see better what's going on. BTW, I personally prefer the symbolic names (like a+r) for the arguments of chmod. Sven.
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