Chris Montgomery wrote:
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> Thanks for the comeback, Andreas. Comments inline below.
>
You're welcome.
> > Generally though it's better to be root when installing things.
> >
>
> Since I am the only user on this machine, would this really matter? My
> impression was that if programs are goin
Thanks for the comeback, Andreas. Comments inline below.
On Tue, 08 Jan 2002 12:46:09 +0100
Andreas Berglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> If you have access to the root account then just become root and type
> "chown your_account_name /usr/local". With the chown command the owner
> of a file
To write to your Windows directory (assuming it is vfat),
add a line like this to your /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfatnoauto,users,owner 0 0
and mount the partition while logged in as your normal user
account (mount /mnt/win). Then, the files will be owned by you.
This give
Chris Montgomery wrote:
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> Newbie alert...
>
> I am trying to install the StarOffice 6 beta into my /usr/local directory,
> as a user (not root). I cannot create a subdirectory
> (/usr/local/staroffice6.0) since /usr/local is owned by root. How can I
> change this to my user account?
If you ha
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> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:25:44 -0600
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Changing Directory Permissions
>
> Newbie alert...
>
> I am trying to install the StarOffice 6 beta into my /usr/local directory,
> as a user (not root). I cannot create a subdirectory
> (/usr/local/
Newbie alert...
I am trying to install the StarOffice 6 beta into my /usr/local directory,
as a user (not root). I cannot create a subdirectory
(/usr/local/staroffice6.0) since /usr/local is owned by root. How can I
change this to my user account? I have the same question about being able
to writ
