[ic] Still Clueless

[Frederick R. Matzen]

I checked permissions and they are set to 755
<ignorance alert> How do I check UMASK?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com
> [mailto:interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Russ
> Riggs
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 1:24 PM
> To: interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [ic] Still Clueless
> 
> 
> ok.....from the logged in directory from telnet ../.. is the root
> diretory and you'll never have permission to write there....nor
> should you.
> 
> When in the tmp directory ../../ points to /home/shop4thingys
> and is owned by same.  You shouldn't have any problems
> writing to that directory if you are logged in as shop4thingys.
> If you aren't then you don't have permission to write to that
> directory either.  Another possible problem may be that the
> permissions on that directoy  are 751 for some reason.  I'd
> change that to 755 and give it another go.   Don't know if
> that is the problem or not but might be...  You might also
> check your umask to see how permissions are being handled.
> 
> russ....
> 
> "Frederick R. Matzen" wrote:
> 
> > Here are the results of that from both the root directory I'm 
> in at telnet
> > and the tmp dir I created from someone's suggestion.
> >
> > lsh107:~$ pwd
> > /home/shop4thingys
> > lsh107:~$ ls -ld ./../../
> > drwxr-xr-x  16 root     root         1024 Aug  9 15:05 ./../../
> > lsh107:~$ cd  tmp
> > lsh107:~/tmp$ cd  interchange-4.8.1
> > lsh107:~/tmp/interchange-4.8.1$ pwd
> > /home/shop4thingys/tmp/interchange-4.8.1
> > lsh107:~/tmp/interchange-4.8.1$ ls -ld ./../../
> > drwxr-x--x   6 shop4thi shop4thi     1024 Aug 29 12:32 ./../../
> > lsh107:~/tmp/interchange-4.8.1$
> >
>