Author: Keith Evans
Date: 09:54:52 06/25/02
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On June 24, 2002 at 22:03:52, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... This is a _extremely_ important point that you make. A coworker of mine once did something like this to / on a Solaris box that we share and that happens to run our EDA main license server. (He had done an "su -" when he just meant to "su".) I was very thankful that: 1) there was a website showing the correct file permissions (since we only have one Solaris box) 2) that he didn't use the -R option 3) That he didn't try to reboot the Sun box after making the changes So be careful Slate! -Keith
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