[ic] Still Clueless

[Russ Riggs]

Hmmmmmm....after changing the permissions on that directory
to 755 you are still encountering the same problem?

umask determins the permisson bits on files and directories
when you create them.  You can check your umask by simply
typing in 'umask' and seeing what it returns.  A typical umask
is 022 which translates to a 644 permissions bit set for regular
files and 755 for directories.  To get a 751 directory permission
bit mask your umask should look something like 026....odd
indeed as the 'world' will not have read or write (but has
execution) permission on the directory.

If you've changed the perms to 755 and are logged in as
shop4thingys and it owns the ../.. directory then I don't know
what the prob is.  Run the configure script again and let's take
a look at the errors...

"Frederick R. Matzen" wrote:

> 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$
> > >
> >
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