A. man whoami will tell you about that command. 1. man groups - the second command tells what groups andersonbd1 is a member of, the first lists all for the current process.
2,3. Set the directory executable for the owner. 4. This one, check news groups on your ISP's newserver. Check out www.linuxdoc.org for their guides and how-tos. Remember man is your friend <G>. The man command will give you the man pages for the commands with each man page explaining in detail the command syntax and actions. Read man man <G>. > --> whoami > andersonbd1 > --> groups > root bin daemon sys adm tty disk lp mem kmem wheel floppy mail news uucp > man cron console audio cdrom dialout ftp sshd tape video squid gdm xfs > games named mysql postgres > --> groups andersonbd1 > root bin daemon sys adm tty disk lp mem kmem wheel floppy mail news uucp > man cron console audio cdrom dialout ftp sshd tape video squid gdm xfs > games named mysql postgres cdrw apache nut usb vpopmail users nofiles qmail > postfix postdrop smmsp portage utmp nogroup nobody proftpd webmaster webdev > --> ls -ld htdocs > drw-rw-r-- 11 andersonbd1 webdev 4096 Jun 14 13:51 htdocs > --> cd htdocs > bash: cd: htdocs: Permission denied > > 1. why does it display all the groups in the second command, but not the > first? All I did to add myself to a group was edit the /etc/group file - > is this correct? > 2. why can't I access this directory even though I am the owner? > 3. why can't I access this directory even though I am in the group? > 4. Does anyone know of any good linux mailing group archives or forums, so > I don't have to ask what are probaly simple questions here? > > Thanks in advance, > Ben Anderson > > _________________________________________________________________ > The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt <>< -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
