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From: Russell Francis <frussell@p1.cs.ohiou.edu>
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Subject: Re: saving files with netscape (permission denied)
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> I went to download a file using netscape and it says permission denied.
> Obviosly this has to do with permissions.

Sure does!

>  I executed X (startx) as
> "/usr/home/username/startx"  and of course i am "logged in as
> "username"

Are you sure about this?  On my system startx is /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
another popular startup script is /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit

> when i go to save a file to /usr/home/username/ i get the permission
> denied error while trying to save the file.

Are you sure about this?  My home directory is /home/username
/usr/*  is for system files and I don't think it is writable except
/usr/tmp by anyone but <root>.  try 

#ls -lsa /usr

> What do i need to do to allow netscape to save files to my home directory?

Try saving them to /home/username or use the `~' character as it defaults
to your home directory whatever it may be! i.e.
~/downloads/somefile.tar.gz

is the same as

/home/<username>/downloads/somefile.tar.gz


Good Luck,
Russell Francis


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