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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Debugging a beginner shell script... Post 302392254 by brokepunk on Wednesday 3rd of February 2010 07:24:53 PM
Old 02-03-2010
This online tutorial had no mention of the .gvfs issue. I found that out by running the script, then spending the next few hours trying to find why my permissions were denied. The .gvfs is located in /home/username. Im still not 100% on what it does or how it works and will do more reading on it today. However I tried chmod 777 and chown root under su and it still gave me permission denied. HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE!!!
Currently running ubunto 9.10 karmic
x86 plenty o' ram and two dual core 2ghz procs.

The function causing the problem is "home_space"
When I changed id -u to 1000(my group((is that a group, you know where root is 0?)) ) I weas able to push some results to the html page produced, permission denied errors show in bash, but not in the results ( pleasent suprise ).

Thank you again, and I am new to these forums... I promise I will get more concise when I learn what information will best help other members help me...

Writing shell scripts - Lesson 13: Positional Parameters

Above is a link to the tutorial I am following... I am a little farther along then this page, but this is where things start to fall apart.
 

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