On Fri, May 07, 2004, bill wrote: > I again ran the above chown command to no apparent effect.
chown only changes ownership, not read and write permissions. You want chmod for that. I've got some examples at http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~gardiner/unix/files.html > How do I change these? Do I need to do it directory at a time and/or file > at a time? By default a chmod command only works on a single thing in the file system, be it a file or a directory (and changing a directory's permissions doesn't change the permissions of the files inside it!) However, the -R flag tells it to recurse into directories. If you ran the following command on a directory called DIRECTORY, then DIRECTORY and everything inside it will become writable (+w) by the user (u) who owns them: chmod -R u+w DIRECTORY -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
