On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:34:27 -0800
Tony Rick <[email protected]> dijo:

>On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Patrick J. Timlick
><[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> The 1000 1000 are the id numbers of the owner and group that the owns the
>> file.  Since it is a number, and not your name, "jjj", that will be a
>> problem.  You should do a "sudo chown jjj.jjj * "after you move them to
>> your
>> home directory.
>>
>> Files with spaces and other special characters can be a problem.  You might
>> try ls A*.pdf and then add characters after the A until you get it down to
>> the one file you want.
>>
>
>For reasons I have not researched, but are certain to exist, RH family
>distributions (eg, Fedora) assign uid/gid for new users starting at 500,
>while Debian family distributions (eg Ubuntu) start at 1000.  My Karmic
>uid/gid is 1000/1000, while my Fedora uid/gid is 500/500.  This adds a
>hiccup when migrating from one family to the other and retaining files from
>your home directory, or any files that you own anywhere.

That is very interesting. Indeed, all the files in ~/ on my Jaunty disk are
1000:1000, and everything in ~/ on my new Fedora disk are 500:500.

Not that it really matters. After getting all the data files from the Jaunty
disk to the Fedora disk I just did "chown -R jjj:jjj ~/*" and the copies are
now owned by the new me.

A more interesting question is why a few of the files on the Jaunty disk are
-rw-------, while most are -rw-r--r---. All the files in ~/ on the Jaunty disk
were placed there by me, not operating as root. For example, the three files
that I cited at the start of this thread are PDF files that I downloaded from
the web page for the Applied Linguistics Department at PSU over the course of a
couple of years. I am the one who downloaded them, not root. And there are many
more such files in ~/ on the Jaunty disk that are also -rw-------. Why? 
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