CLUofI

I am trying to change the read write permission for files on the unix servers(i am hosting my pics from the school's servers)
For some reason i cant get it to work. Any help would be appreciated.

Edit: what are the command so that the file are readable by anyone and only writeable by me.

CLUofI

pity reply

if any one helps me i will host some car pics for you

Silver_Lana

for read for everyone else and write for u... it is

$ chmod 644 foo.txt

let me know if u need any more help..

CLUofI

i tried that and it wouldnt work

edit: do i have to do it for every file or just the directory?

edit again: here is what it did

l-ecn023% chmod 644 Newsgroup
l-ecn023% Newsgroup
Newsgroup: Permission denied.
l-ecn023%

Silver_Lana

do you get an error of some sort?

CLUofI

it told me permission denied

Silver_Lana

say the file is foo.txt. ok?
run the following and paste the output here...

$ ls -l foo.txt

that way i can see what the setup is now... by the way what *NIX are u running?

CLUofI

l-ecn023% ls -l Newsgroup
Newsgroup/arguing on the internet retard.jpg not found
Newsgroup/104-0401_IMG.JPG not found
Newsgroup/103-0323_IMG.JPG not found
Newsgroup/arnold stfu.jpg not found
Newsgroup/attention whore.jpg not found
Newsgroup/can't see shit.jpg not found
Newsgroup/capt obvious.jpg not found
Newsgroup/cashmoney.jpg not found
Newsgroup/Caution red X.jpg not found
Newsgroup/cheerleader-.jpg not found
Newsgroup/column12.jpg not found
Newsgroup/column6.jpg not found
Newsgroup/column7.jpg not found
Newsgroup/column8.jpg not found
Newsgroup/column9.jpg not found
Newsgroup/comptits.jpg not found
Newsgroup/dave you are an idiot.jpg not found
Newsgroup/devil.jpg not found
Newsgroup/dog would.jpg not found
Newsgroup/english motha.jpg not found
Newsgroup/Guy with red X.jpg not found
Newsgroup/fast-furious-2.jpg not found
Newsgroup/jesus.jpg not found
Newsgroup/last week.jpg not found
Newsgroup/mosesenglish.jpg not found
Newsgroup/nun on computer.jpg not found
Newsgroup/repost.jpg not found
Newsgroup/ricerfield.jpg not found
Newsgroup/smart monkey.jpg not found
Newsgroup/traffic.jpg not found
Newsgroup/you suck at the internet.jpg not found
Newsgroup/you're not cool.jpg not found
Newsgroup/wtf-lightning.jpg not found
Newsgroup/i see dumb people.jpg not found
Newsgroup/ohgodwhycliklink.jpg not found
Newsgroup/welcome.jpg not found
Newsgroup/smallshortvan.jpg not found
Newsgroup/Ray cant see.jpg not found
Newsgroup/samir.jpg not found
Newsgroup/iq chart.jpg not found
Newsgroup/monkeyrobot.jpg not found
Newsgroup/monkey.jpg not found
Newsgroup/103-0310_IMG.JPG not found
Newsgroup/ducatipic.bmp not found
total 0

Silver_Lana

Dude!!!
Looks like you have a filesystem problem...
if you have root on that box, you should unmount and remount the partition... otherwise Root may have just limited your read access to the Newsgroup Directory.
Another obvious thing is you may not be the owner of this directory.... and you may not belong to the group it is owned by.... so you may need to use chown to modify that..
hope that helps...

CLUofI

thanks for your help, hopefully i can get this working in the next day or two.

fbazakos

hey, i'll help you ...

gimme an "ls -la" of the target directory, and it's parent directory. this way we can see who the owner and groups are. if you are not the owner, or in the group, and the permissions aren't right, then you're screwed. you can check what groups you are in by "cat /etc/passwd | grep username"

other just try "chmod 755 targetfile" and then go up on level in the directory tree to the parent directory and "chmod 755 childdirectory"

eclipse23

FOTIS !!

CLUofI

here is what it gave me

l-ecn023% ls -la
total 80
drwxr-xr-x 3 ejhayes undergrad 8192 Mar 4 18:48 .
drwx--x--x 9 ejhayes undergrad 8192 Feb 27 20:25 ..
drw-r--r-- 2 ejhayes undergrad 8192 Mar 4 18:46 Newsgroup
-rwxr--r-- 1 ejhayes undergrad 323 Feb 27 19:17 audit.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 ejhayes undergrad 14 Feb 27 20:26 working
l-ecn023%

fbazakos

Hey mang,

Don't hijack but thanks for the shout out ... gimme a jingle, i'm back in mpls for a few weeks, when you comin up?

work's been absolutely crazy ... not even gonna start ...

fbazakos

.

ok, your shell is ghey, but that is besides the point.

give me a "pwd" before you do the "ls -la" so I know WTF i'm looking at. here is what you need to know, i'll use my U of MN account to give you an example.

The source files for my web pages are located in:

/home/fbazakos/www/*

so while in /home/fbazakos I do a "chmod 755 www" to get the web directory visible to the world.

anything underneat the www corresponds to "www.cs.umn.edu/~fbazakos/" so my directory in my UNIX home dir of /home/fbazakos/www/acura corresponds to "www.cs.umn.edu/~fbazakos/acura" on the web. get it?

so, you have to set the permissions on /home/fbazakos/www/ and all child dirs and files to 755 so that they can be viewed on the web. is your username ejhayes? are you in the undergrad group? <-- you can check this by ypcat group | grep edhayes or cat /etc/group | grep edhayes

CLUofI

Here is the web page

fbazakos

ok so you have the following in your parent web directory:

Newsgroup/ 04-Mar-2002 18:46 -
audit.html 27-Feb-2002 19:17 1k
working 27-Feb-2002 20:26 1k

i can see the bottom two files ... when i try to view the Newsgroup i get "Forbidden - You don't have permission to access /~ejhayes/Newsgroup/ on this server." Which is a 403 error.

what is it that you need?

CLUofI

inside of newsgroup i have all of my pictures and what not, i need to beable to open the pictures from the web so i link the pictures in to here instead of attaching them

fbazakos

from the parent directory of what is shown, you need to chmod 755 Newsgroup, then the same to the children of Newsgroup.

CLUofI

OK just ONE more unix newbie question.

can i do this?
chmod 755 file1 file2 file3

or do i have to do it one at a time?

fbazakos

you can't multi-list... you can use the * operator as a wildcard ... for example: chmod 755 *.jpg will change all the files ending in .jpg to 755 permissions.

CLUofI

THANK YOU UNIX GOD

and i hope it works

Silver_Lana

what i wanna know is... who the heck is this???




what the story .. or are you holding out on us????

CLUofI

ah i see you found the good pics, those are some girls i know.

Silver_Lana

girls you just know.... hmmmm
sounds suspicious to me..
so which one is ur f*$k-buddy so i can exclude her from my sick fantasies.. lol :p
By the way... they are hotties

CLUofI

i have never touched either one of them, and it was acutally a friend of mine that took these pics. i went to a different bar that night.

fbazakos

i got two greek friends down there .... one guy, his name is Kosta, he's from Sioux City, and one girl, Krissy, she's from Mpls . .. i forgot which frats/sororities they're in ...