From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 25 21:36:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95AD237B401 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:36:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com) Received: from rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com ([216.196.73.168]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:34:04 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1Q5Zu125695; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:35:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:35:55 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "G. Jason Middleton" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: permission denied Message-ID: <20010225213555.A89396@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:11:43AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:11:43AM -0500, G. Jason Middleton wrote: > well looks like i changed the permissions for root some how...while trying > to ping any IP i get a sendto permission denied error. SO i left that > problem alone for a bit then try to compile my kernel. So in the process > i was doing a "/usr/sbin/config kernelname and got permission denied as > well....i am logged in as root...so this is what mad me think i have f-ed > up the permissions some how. Anybody got any suggestions? > > > Coming from an NT environment you guys don't know how bad this makes me > want to reinstall the whole darn operating system. But i read somewhere > thatwhen you are having a prob with unix that you will never have to > reinstall, you just need to know which file to edit! > I love this stuff and i have only ben using it for 4 weeks! What securelevel are you running at? Are you doing any firewalling? Details, details. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message