On 08/08/2013 06:47 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 16:48:18 -0700 > Paul Mullen <[email protected]> dijo: > >> On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 03:46:35PM -0700, Dale Snell wrote: >>> Huh. Green text on a blank background means the executable bit is >>> set. I don't know what a green background means, nor the >>> combination of the two. Check your /etc/DIR_COLORS* files and see >>> if anything is supposed to set the background to green. > >> In my experience, a green background means a directory is >> world-writeable. File names don't seem to get the same treatment. > For most distros, by default, yes. World readable file names will be green text. This is standard behavior if you mount a Windows NTFS drive on Linux. Is your drive NTFS? You will have an easier time if you use a linux native format.
> After my first post here I noticed that all the solid green ones were > folders owned by jjj:jjj. *Files* owned by jjj:jjj were not affected. > And folders and files owned by 500 were not affected. I should add that > when I say "solid green bar" I mean the background and the text are > both dark green. The only way to tell the filename is by guessing from > the length of the bar. User 500 *was* you when the files where created. This was the default UUID. When you reinstalled, *you* became UUID 1000, obviously a different "person" > > So I did sudo chown -R* jjj:jjj /media/Movies/*. After it ended I am > now the owner of all the files and folders, except .Trash, which is > still owned by 500. I specifically tried to take ownership of .Trash as > well, but the terminal said "silly boy, that file does not exist." Or > something like that. OK, who cares. You can usually delete .Trash-500, a new file .Trash-1000 will be created (but only if you are root, not via sudo, the old one DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU). I've had external drives with a .Trash-xxx for every user that accessed that drive. > > But the interesting thing is that the ones that had solid green names > before still have solid green names, and the ones with normal names > still have normal names, even though I now own all of them. > > My next theory is that there is a date involved here. Folders created > after or before some date are the ones with the solid green names. Is > there a way to do a ls command and have it sort by date of creation? > refer to "man ls" There are lots of options. > * Why do some commands require an uppercase R, others a lowercase r, > and some will take either? C'mon programmers, get your act together > here. Because there is NO ONE PROGRAMMING AUTHORITY in F/OSS. Also, if a command has -R and -r, they are sometimes DIFFEREN, sometimes THE SAME. Its all part of the fun! -Ed _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
