help with getting permissions set correctly for .bin and .etc on a Debian box
Hi there list, Name here is Scott. I just installed Smartlist a few days ago. I am having trouble accessing the .bin and also the .etc directories for Smartlist. I am wondering if any one can tell me what to chown them to and chgrp and chmod them too. Thanks for the help.
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Scott Berry wrote:
Name here is Scott. I just installed Smartlist a few days ago. I am having trouble accessing the .bin and also the .etc directories for Smartlist. I am wondering if any one can tell me what to chown them to and chgrp and chmod them too. Thanks for the help.
You can chmod 2755 /var/list if you want to access such directory as an ordinary user, but the upstream package has this directory as rwx--s--x and the Debian package respect that. You are only supposed to manipulate SmartList files there as the "list" user, really, so become root and then "su list". An umask of 002 so that files are automatically writable by group list would be recommended too.
hi, On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 05:57:01PM -0700, Scott Berry wrote:
Name here is Scott. I just installed Smartlist a few days ago. I am having trouble accessing the .bin and also the .etc directories for Smartlist. I am wondering if any one can tell me what to chown them to and chgrp and chmod them too. Thanks for the help.
well, I have smartlist running in a Debian box and I hadn't to touch the ownership and permissions: the default values were ok. Thus, if you are installing smartlist from a debian package and you have touched the ownership/permissions I would suggest you to remove the smartlist package (apt-get remove smartlist && dpkg --purge smartlist) and reinstall it. Alternatively, if you are installing smartlist from a non-debian distribution file, let me know and I will send you a detailed directory list with permissions and the like. best regards, Miquel -- Miquel E Cabanas ------------------------------------------------------ SeRMN, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Miquel.Cabanas@uab.es) ------------------------------------------o-oo--ooo---ooo--oo-o--------
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