On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 08:45:00PM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: > > And what is "the usual"? > > > well, whether dir or link or file, rwx, three times, > permissions, name and size of file(if a file) and some > number(if a dir)which I'm not sure of the meaning of, > and, if a link, what it points to -- the usual. What > am I supposed to see?
rwxrwxrwx is normal if you mount a vfat partition: it doesn't support permissions anyway. Who is the owner? There should be something like -rw-r--r-- 1 wwong root 322 Feb 25 15:43 toDo -rw-r--r-- 1 wwong root 1557 Oct 15 19:09 toGet -rw-r--r-- 1 wwong root 424 Jan 17 21:09 toLookUp permission user group We are mostly interested in what the user and group setting are. And what about if you run ls -ld on the directory in question? Who is the owner of the directory? If the directory is owned by root, can you, as root, chown the directory to your user? Don't do it recursively, just chown <user> <directory name> W -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- * Address: 45 Spelman Hall, Princeton University 08544 * * Phone: x68958 AIM: AngularJerk * * E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: sep.dynalias.net * ---------------------------------------------------------------- "This is obvously not how one does science, but in retrospect you get the right answer." ~DeathMech, S. Sondhi. P-town PHY 205 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 2 days, 23:41 -- [email protected] mailing list
