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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers /home locked Post 13659 by guest100 on Tuesday 22nd of January 2002 06:16:09 AM
Old 01-22-2002
/home locked

Hi all,

Does anyone knows why can't I change the /home dir in to writeable?

here is what I get ?

dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1 Jan 22 10:09 xfn
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1 Nov 28 16:11 home
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1 Nov 28 16:11 net
dr-xr-xr-x 6 root root 512 Nov 28 16:12 vol
dr-xr-xr-x 125 root root 480032 Jan 22 11:08 proc
drwx------ 2 root other 512 Nov 15 12:38 Mail
drwx------ 2 root other 512 Sep 13 14:20 nsmail
drwx------ 2 root root 8192 Sep 13 12:12 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 512 Nov 23 10:17 ANP
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Sep 26 11:30 TT_DB
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Sep 13 12:16 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 1024 Sep 13 12:19 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root nobody 512 Dec 14 12:22 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Sep 13 12:15 export
drwxr-xr-x 4 root sys 512 Sep 13 12:32 devices
drwxr-xr-x 5 root other 512 Jan 22 10:25 MagellanNMS
drwxr-xr-x 9 root sys 512 Sep 13 13:15 kernel
drwxr-xr-x 14 root sys 4608 Sep 26 11:29 dev
drwxr-xr-x 29 root sys 1536 Sep 13 12:32 platform
drwxr-xr-x 32 root sys 512 Sep 13 12:59 var
drwxr-xr-x 36 root sys 1024 Sep 21 10:41 usr
drwxr-xr-x 41 root sys 3584 Jan 22 11:03 etc
drwxrwxr-x 23 root other 512 Jan 11 10:07 opt
drwxrwxrwt 9 root sys 1828 Jan 22 11:05 tmp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 13 12:16 bin -> ./usr/bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 13 12:16 lib -> ./usr/lib
total 1063
# chmod 644 /home
chmod: WARNING: can't change /home
# w
11:08am up 54 day(s), 18:58, 2 users, load average: 0.14, 0.11, 0.10
User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
root pts/3 11:08am w
root dtremote 10:24am 44 6 2 /sbin/sh
root pts/1 10:55am 3 /sbin/sh


Thanks
 

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