Roger Sherman wrote:
>
> Hi! I just copied my mp3 dir from the winbites partition of my PC to
> the Linux, in my user profile, and when I checked the permissions, it
> listed as access being given to user, group, and others. Now, what I want
> to do is to make it so only user has access, and the way I was trying to
> do it was by opening a su terminal and typing:
>
> chmod -r 700 /home/rog/mp3
>
> but then I'd hit enter, and it would say
>
> chmod: 700: No such file or directory
>
> I checked the man pages, and it seemed to indicate I had the syntax right,
> but I guess I'm misinterpreting it somehow...anyways, what would the
> proper syntax for that be?
>
> --
>
> peace,
>
> Rog
Hi Rog...aren't you mixing modes there? I mean you can use letters or numbers
in your chmod commands, but not both, I think? Try:
chmod 700 /home/rog/mp3
You should still go into /home/rog/mp3 and do a chmod 700 * as well...
That should work...
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