From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 22 10:14:20 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 512EE37B401 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:14:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from the-frontier.org (ns1.the-frontier.org [216.86.199.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A93E643E4A for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:14:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pscott@skycoast.us) Received: from [192.168.66.249] (dhcp-249-66-168-192.the-frontier.org [192.168.66.249]) by the-frontier.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA90635; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:13:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pscott@skycoast.us) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:13:22 -0800 Subject: Re: Directory From: "Paul A. Scott" To: Jerry McAllister , Peter Milne Cc: Free BSD Questions Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200211221808.gAMI8B901708@clunix.cl.msu.edu> 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 On 11/22/02 10:08 AM, "Jerry McAllister" wrote: >> Now I am trying to set permissions and I cannot get it done. >> $ cd importedpictures >> $ ls >> ls: .: Permission denied >> What am I doing wrong?? You were setting permissions on the wrong directory. You are currently in 'importedpictures' and ls is complaining about '.' (the current directory). So you should set permissions on '.' (or ../importedpictures). Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message