On August 17, 2004 10:20 pm, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Michael Walters: > > On August 17, 2004 04:22 pm, s. keeling wrote: > > > That's because, for whatever reason, you have a /usr/bin/mozilla > > > _directory_ > > > > > > Why, I don't know. Is there anything in that directory? > > > > > > ls -alF /usr/bin/mozilla > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -alF /usr/bin/mozilla > > total 133 > > drwxr-sr-x 2 michael michael 144 Aug 17 15:41 ./ > > drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 69224 Aug 14 14:16 ../ > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 michael michael 20 Aug 17 15:41 mozilla-1.6 > > -> /usr/bin/mozilla-1.6* > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 michael michael 56434 Jul 30 04:49 nphelix.so* > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 michael michael 5086 Jul 30 04:49 nphelix.xpt* > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > So, in /usr/bin/mozilla/, you have a _link_: > > /usr/bin/mozilla/mozilla-1.6 > > which points back to: > > /usr/bin/mozilla-1.6 > > _Why_ you have that link, I can't imagine. However, assuming there is > a /usr/bin/mozilla-1.6, to call mozilla, you do: > > /usr/bin/mozilla-1.6 & > > It also seems odd that the contents of that dir are all owned > michael.michael, and that's potentially a problem. It means you in > your user account can delete mozilla. You should be very careful with > your "rm" commands. :-) Those things ought to be owned root.root and > executable by anyone. > > If nothing else, this had made for an interesting tutorial in > Unix/Linux directory structure. :-) > > Glad you finally got it working. Congratulations.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hello Shawn, Should I use a chown command to change the ownership to root.root? If so I will do a man chown to see how to do that. Regards, Michael _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
