On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Mike wrote:
> Hello again, I have a question(again).
> First a BIG THANX to all the help that I have gotten here in the past.
> You guys are a real life saver, and hair saver :)
> On my system running Red Hat 5.1
> I made an accnt for root, and anotherone we'll call mike.
> When I log on as root and change my ppp-on file (or any other file for
> that matter) and use chmod 600 ppp-on..........it saves the file and
> everything looks like it's suppost to.
> NOW when I log on as mike and try and run /etc/ppp/ppp-on I get an
> error something like permission denied even though I think I should have
> the permission to run it....useing ls -l it says I do...
> What am I doning wrong???
> Thanx in advance.............Mike
>
>
chmod 600 ppp-on gives read and write permission for ppp-on to the owner
of ppp-on.
chmod 777 ppp-on would give read, write and execute permission to
everyone.
You should make sure you have the appropriate permissions set on any
file that ppp-on executes, as well as on ppp-on itself.
--rws
