UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

I developed a java application in Windows and transferred it to a HP-UX environment(using WinSCP) for deployment.

I used "chmod 777 ..." for granting rights to the files.

After I did this, whenever I go into that directory(or it's immediate parent directory) and hit "ls"......it shows ". unreadable".

pwd returns: "ksh: pwd: permission denied"

What could be wrong with this directory?

The other sibling directories seems to be unaffected.

Please help.

Thanks,
Agniv.

The reason for this problem is that you don't have the permission for /bin/pwd.First you should give permission as ,

chmod 777 /bin/pwd . ( In some machines it will be /usr/bin/pwd )

After doing this you just give the old permission .

chmod 555 /bin/pwd

I tries it, but it didn't work.

Actually the parent directory under which I installed it already had pwd(and every other) rights.

Do they really, actually need 777 permissions? That is, every last user, daemon, and program on the entire system system has read, write, and execute access? If you're chmod-ing every single file, you're probably granting execute permissions to many files that aren't even executables!

I guess that the directory permissions are something weird like 111 (d--x--x--x). This would allow you to "cd" to the directory but not actually read the directory with "pwd" or "ls".