On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:
> All the tools and applications I build locally are in /opt. Because > top-level directories are owned by root.root I change the mode of /opt to > 777 so I can download files to it, move files to it, etc. > > For some reason beyond my understanding, the permissions keep changing > back to 755. I downloaded an application upgrade about a half-hour ago > after > needing to change the mode to 777; just tried to download the latest > postgres and the directory was 755 again. > > What might cause this? > > Rich > It might well have been the application you loaded. Some packages will set the permissions to what they think they should be. You can look at the package manifest it you like. (rpm -qlv, for rpm-based distros) Ali _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
