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From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
To: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE>
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Subject: Re: group permissions
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> Make sure you are in group wheel by asking id(1).
> 
> $ id
> uid=8999(helbig) gid=0(wheel)     groups=0(wheel)
>                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 		 this does not    this counts
> 		 count
> 
uid=1003(shawn) gid=1001(cpl) groups=1001(cpl), 0(wheel)



> What is the error message if you try to read it?


cd /etc/namedb 
namedb: Permission denied. 

> Do the directories of avatar.txt's pathname have the proper permissions.
> You must have execute permissions on them. 

Im not sure what you mean by this...