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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Directory
To: peter@milneweb.com (Peter Milne)
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:08:11 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <20021122105623.7559ec7e.peter@milneweb.com> from "Peter Milne" at Nov 22, 2002 10:56:23 AM
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> 
> >>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??

I am confused.  Is this 'My Pictures'  directory on CD or is it stuff 
you have moved to hard disk?   If it is on CD, I don't think you
can set the permissions on that directory because you can't write
to the CD.   I don't know why you can't do an ls.  Try doing
an  ls -laF up there before you cd to importedpictures.

////jerry
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> Pete
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