On (15/07/05 19:34), Dom wrote: > Thank you all for your help, I've found out even more than I needed. > I can proudly say I won a several days battle between a man and the > machine and I have a Sarge version of Debian Linux installed (with > gdm). > The biggest problem is that I'm a 'trial and error' method kind of man > meaning I could have prepared myself for problems with nvidia module > if I wanted to spend some time reading (boring...). Oh well... > > The mails and everything else from OE is successfully backed up and > ready for mozilla thunderbird, but... I made myself another problem > now. As I was operating as root when copying the backed data from the > old ntfs partition (so I could format it as ext3 and place back all > the data) I am now faced with a problem of permissions - the owner of > all that data is root, the group is also root and the permissions are > set only for root - no permissions set for group and others. > And as I know it's no good to make a habit of working as a root for > the everyday work, I need to change the owner of all these files (and > there are many of them, both files and folders, approximately 500) and > I know no other way of selecting one by one and setting the owner > manually. > > Is there another way of doing that? Please if you know the answer > maybe it would be better if you answer to the new conversation I > started just for the purpose of this (Subject: Setting permissions, > changing the owner...).
# chown -R user:group /dir will change the ownership recursively see: man chown and: man chmod Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]