From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 22 9:56:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 837C037B401 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:56:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from host16.christianwebhost.com (host16.christianwebhost.com [209.239.42.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9829A43E91 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:56:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@milneweb.com) Received: from milneweb.com (host140.dsl1.blackfoot.net [12.32.44.140]) by host16.christianwebhost.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id gAMHuT911404 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:56:29 -0500 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:56:23 -0700 From: Peter Milne To: Free BSD Questions Subject: Re: Directory Message-Id: <20021122105623.7559ec7e.peter@milneweb.com> In-Reply-To: <20021122165952.A26309@milouz.boece.foo> References: <20021122085543.4d101240.peter@milneweb.com> <20021122165952.A26309@milouz.boece.foo> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>Yes: either you type cd "My Pictures" or cd My\ Pictures. Great! That worked. Now I am trying to set permissions and I cannot get it done. $ ls Milneweb gaim.core mystuff XF86Config.new importedpictures poorcoop.jpg downloads irc zippedfiles $ cd importedpictures $ ls ls: .: Permission denied $ su Password: milneweb# ls My Pictures milneweb# chmod 777 "My Pictures" milneweb# exit exit $ ls ls: .: Permission denied What am I doing wrong?? -- Pete Mail brought to you by FreeBSD 4.7 and Sylpheed-claws http://milneweb.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message