Hi,

> I wish I went... would've been handy, just developed a problem,
> when I log in over putty, I get:

> login as: voytek
> voy...@xx.cc.vv.bb's password:
> Last login: Fri Nov 22 15:28:50 2013 from 11.22.33.44
> -bash: /etc/profile: Permission denied

> # ls -al /etc/profile
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 1796 Nov 22 16:08 /etc/profile

> tried chmoding above, didn't seem to work

You probably know this, but just in case - you need to use sudo, since
it's a system config file:

sudo chmod a+r /etc/profile


Jiri
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Sabik Software Solutions Pty Ltd
0413 183 117
http://www.baum.com.au/sabik
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