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To: Randy Katz <randyk@ccsales.com>
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Subject: Re: VIEWING / PERMS-OWNER 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 08 Nov 1997 21:17:06 PST."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 22:11:15 -0800
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>Is there any way to view the permissions on the "/" directory? And to 
>view the ownership/group on it?

   ls -l /

   ...and look at the "." entry, or:

   ls -ld /

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project