Neil Greenwood wrote:
The reason that the directories 'vanished' is that execute permission
is used to indicate that directories can be browsed i.e. listed in ls
or Nautilus. When you did the chmod 664 it also worked on the
directories, and then you couldn't look into them.
Neil This was
I hear ya!
I've converted a lot of people to Linux just from them sitting and
watching me use Kubuntu with Beryl on a 4 year old desktop.
Yeah, my desktop struggles with Vista too...
(Spins cube).
No, this isn't Vista
(Spins cube some more+transparent stuff).
Yeah, from 2004, Athlon XP
(Hits
Robert McWilliam wrote:
The escaped semi colon just marks the end of the command to -exec, as
you figured. Each time find gets a result, it runs the commands in the
-exec options replacing the {} with the path to the result (there are
other things, e.g. inode number, that you can substitute in
On 08/06/07, luxxius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see now why the Ubuntu default is 755 (all the digits odd) -
everyone can, for starters, see the directories and their contents.
I think the default for directories is 755, the default for files
should be 644. The default is set using the
snip
Ah, right! I'd missed the the fact that -exec was a condition of
'find'; glad I didn't try using it to pipe other stuff into! 'Find' is
clearly powerful, but a bit of a portmanteau, and it's easy to miss the
significance of its conditions in the four pages of material in 'Linux
in
Neil Greenwood wrote:
I think the default for directories is 755, the default for files
should be 644. The default is set using the umask command, in case you
wanted to know.
Yes, those defaults would make sense - everyone can at least see what's
in directories, and read files, but not
Friends Came across this news item about Dell Ubuntu:
http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=showid=7902
which also contains reference to this Dell-site video:
http://tinyurl.com/24uyxb
(Navigate on right to - 'Home' / News You Can Use / Linux 101)
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ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
So this idea occurred to me while I was flicking through some leaflets I got
in the post:
What is we gave free training, certification and incentives to all the
numerous pay-per-incident support companies that daily help Windows users
with viruses, adware, basic stuff?
There's GeekSquad,
Neil,
Neil Greenwood wrote:
I guess that the reason for the alternative is that some people can't
cope with the octal notation (or maybe the octal notation was added as
a shortcut later), but the chmod command is ancient (at least 25
years), so I'm not sure.
My guess is that the octal
On 08/06/07, Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Neil,
Neil Greenwood wrote:
I guess that the reason for the alternative is that some people can't
cope with the octal notation (or maybe the octal notation was added as
a shortcut later), but the chmod command is ancient (at least 25
Neil,
Neil Greenwood wrote:
My wife says I have a good memory for useless things, but can't
remember anything useful, so obviously the text notation of chmod is
too useful.
LOL!
Tony.
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Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester,
IT Services Division, Kilburn Building,
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