On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 23:27, Marco Verheul wrote: > Well, sort of... > > I still can't figure out why I was locked out of these directories, but > I managed to copy them into a new directory as root and give myself the > proper permissions again. The immediate problem is solved, but I would > still be interested in any ideas as to why I had the problem in the > first place. > > Marco > > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 09:25, Marco Verheul wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I had a weird accident with gFTP last night. When I was changing the > > permissions on a couple of files before uploading them to my website, I > > must have pushed a wrong button, because gFTP crashed. > > When I started it up again I found myself locked out of the directory > > where my websites are located. Still I get a permission denied. > > Also in Konqueror it is indicated that the directory is locked. When I > > open a console and navigate to the directory as root, nothing seems to > > be the matter. The permissions look good and the directory is still > > owned by me. > > > > Any suggestions are most welcome, because I really to access those > > files for upload.
I was once stumped with a similar problem and it turned out that I had (without realising) removed the execute bit on sub-directories - that is, rw-rw-rw which of course means that you can't enter those sub-directories. So it might pay to check again. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today
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