Show us the permissions on the directory. Regards, Dustin
At 11:11 AM 5/3/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, all. I have what I hope is a simple question about >groups. I am currently running RedHat 7.2. > >I am working on some PHP-Nuke stuff work, no big deal. However, I have it >installed to /var/www/html. It is a hassle to have to do everything in >/var/www/html as root, so I created a group called 'web' using the RH >User/Group administration tool. I added my personal account, jcole, to the >'web' group. Then I did 'chgrp -R web html' and 'chmod -R 2775 html' from >/var/www. So far so good, right? > >So I open a terminal window and pop over to /var/www/html and try something >like 'cat index.php > foo' to see if I can now edit things in the web tree as >jcole. Uh oh - 'bash: foo: permission denied'. > >The entry for the web group in /etc/group is: > >web:x:501:jcole > >Does anyone out there have any idea as to what I am doing incorrectly? > >Thanks. > >John. > >-- >John B. Cole >PT.NET Webmaster, College of Education >Animal Breeding and Genetics Section, Department of Animal Science >Louisiana State University >Baton Rouge, LA 70803 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UNIX and Network Consultant http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear PGP Key available at http://www.us.pgp.net In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams
