Curious file-permissions problem

2007-11-27 Thread x_debian-user_x
Hi, I wonder if someone can throw some light on this file-permissions issue please? It came to light as rsync complained: rsync: failed to set times on "/var/www/mirror/foo/.": Operation not permitted (1) An strace revealed the failure is effectively a result of: cd /var/www/mirror/foo; touch -

Re: X/GNOME starts just a bit, then dies; file permissions problem?

2004-07-17 Thread Shot
Hello. Shot: > After upgrading X to 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 yesterday on my workstation > (Radeon 7500) I can no longer get back to GNOME It seems something must've changed the ~/.ICEauthority ownership to root:root and GNOME couldn't read it. After chmodding the file back to shot:shot everything works o

X/GNOME starts just a bit, then dies; file permissions problem?

2004-07-16 Thread Shot
Hello. After upgrading X to 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 yesterday on my workstation (Radeon 7500) I can no longer get back to GNOME - when I try to `startx` I see the usual, dotted gray X background with the black X cursor for a while and then I'm dropped back to console. dmesg seems to be appended with [drm:r

RE: file permissions problem

2002-12-10 Thread Mikael Jirari
Title: RE: file permissions problem Something is changing your permissions and I don't know what so try to investigate on that. But you may want to look at the attrib command as well Cheers -Original Message- From: Richard Kimber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 Dec

file permissions problem

2002-12-10 Thread Richard Kimber
I have two accounts on my machine (which is a simple home machine that no one else uses, except for my wife logging in to retrieve her email). I have set the permissions on one of the accounts to rwx--x--x (because my local apache needs execute permission to access files in this account, as I unde

Apache-debian file permissions problem

1998-08-15 Thread Kent Andersen
Hello all, does anyone know how to get apache to read userfiles I.E. /home/user/www Without having to chmod on them first? Its really a pain in the butt to have to go in and chmod the files to allow apache to access them every time you update the files.. Your all knowing wisdom is appreciated.