04-28-2009
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1. Filesystems, Disks and Memory
I'm trying to answer the following question about file permissions in Unix. Consider a file with the following permissions:
rwx---r--
I am not the owner of this file, but I am a member of the group of this file.
My question is: do I have read access to this file?
I thought... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Hook
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi
I have a folder with permissions like this:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 4 18:02 sites
But when I try to cd to this directory as 'testuser' (member of testuser) I get Permission Denied.
My understanding of permissions is that in this case other (say testuser) should be able to... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: justinwyllie
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Folks;
I'd like to create a group on my Linux box & add a few users to it.
Is there a way to do so and restrict this group/users to have access to only one or directory trees?
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Guys,
Aside from the following, what are other letters can be seen on permission and what do they do? Thank you.
r = read
w = write
x = execute
l = link
d = directory
s = ? (5 Replies)
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5. Ubuntu
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The URL is graphic view my present concern. Old partition working great sdb1
both appear on nautilus, both deliver icons to desk top. Based on the label handling of gparted results I tried following with success
sudo mkdir /media/disk/data
sudo chown... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: 77yrold
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
As I understand the file permissions in UNIX is basically
Owner, group, others
Lets assume scott user who's primary group is dev creates a file called test.dat and then grants some privileges on that file...
scott@unix-host> echo "this is a test" > test.dat
scott@unix-host> chmod 640... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: luft
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
On the Redhat ES, when I do ls -l I see dot (.) after the permission. I never saw on other UNIX systems. Is that some thing new RH 6?
-rw-r--r--. <---- this dot, I am referring to
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 18 May 20 2009 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 176 May 20 ... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: samnyc
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8. Red Hat
Hi,
in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
#DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
DocumentRoot "/home/phpmy/html"
when I restarted httpd
# /etc/init.d/httpd restart
Stopping httpd:
Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 293 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: jediwannabe
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Experts: i want to change this permission back to the way it was:
Initial:
drwxr-xr-x 8 oracle oinstall 4096 Jun 5 15:21 oracle
Now: drwxr-xr-x 8 oracle oinstall 4096 Jun 5 15:21 oracle
drwsr-sr-x 8 oracle oinstall 4096 Jun 5 15:21 oracle
Now I want to switch it back to ... (2 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear forum members,
Below is my code, but I am getting permission denied when I try to run the script. Can someone explain what I am missing. I am using Mojave and try to run script on terminal.
#!/bin/bash
read -p "amino acid: " AAA
if || || || || ||
|| || || || ||
||... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT HPUX
realpath
realpath(3X) realpath(3X)
NAME
realpath - resolve pathname
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
The function derives, from the pathname pointed to by file_name, an absolute pathname that names the same file, whose resolution does not
involve or symbolic links. The generated pathname is stored, up to a maximum of bytes, in the buffer pointed to by resolved_name.
RETURN VALUE
On successful completion, returns a pointer to the resolved name. Otherwise, returns a null pointer and sets errno to indicate the error,
and the contents of the buffer pointed to by resolved_name are undefined.
ERRORS
The function will fail if:
Read or search permission was denied for a component of
file_name.
Either the file_name or resolved_name argument is a null pointer.
An error occurred while reading from the file system.
Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving
path.
The file_name argument is longer than or a pathname component is longer than
A component of file_name does not name an existing file or file_name points to an empty string.
A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
The function may fail if:
Pathname resolution of a symbolic link produced an intermediate result whose
length exceeds
Insufficient storage space is available.
SEE ALSO
sysconf(2), getcwd(3C), thread_safety(5), glossary(9), <stdlib.h>.
CHANGE HISTORY
First released in Issue 4, Version 2.
realpath(3X)