Hello all. New subscriber to the list and have the following situation.
Running a potato box. I wanted to save a document created in StarOffice to /mnt/floppy/ but it told me I didn't have the right perms. As user, I am already added to the group 'floppy'. So I checked the perms and found I didn't have write privs. Went to chmod to correct the situation and had these results: YOU ARE ROOT!! on jchammin /mnt pts/4> chmod 777 floppy YOU ARE ROOT!! on jchammin /mnt pts/4> ls -al total 17 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Jan 15 21:45 ./ drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1024 Jan 20 11:01 ../ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 7168 Dec 31 1969 floppy/ drwxrwxrwx 60 root root 8192 Dec 31 1969 windoz/ Even tried the symbols: YOU ARE ROOT!! on jchammin /mnt pts/4> chmod a+rwx floppy YOU ARE ROOT!! on jchammin /mnt pts/4> ls -al total 17 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Jan 15 21:45 ./ drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1024 Jan 20 11:01 ../ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 7168 Dec 31 1969 floppy/ drwxrwxrwx 60 root root 8192 Dec 31 1969 windoz/ And even: YOU ARE ROOT!! on jchammin /mnt pts/4> chmod --reference=windoz floppy YOU ARE ROOT!! on jchammin /mnt pts/4> ls -al total 17 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Jan 15 21:45 ./ drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1024 Jan 20 11:01 ../ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 7168 Dec 31 1969 floppy/ drwxrwxrwx 60 root root 8192 Dec 31 1969 windoz/ I did this after reading the man for chmod. What am I missing? -- 73, JC Portlock KE6UME [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 14481033 =========================================== Professionals built the Titanic, but Amateurs built the Ark. =========================================== Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
