From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 24 19:18:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0EFC737B404 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:18:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 42265 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2002 03:22:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO proxy.pt.com) (151.201.71.209) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 25 Jan 2002 03:22:37 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology To: Brian Astill , Subject: Re: A question from a convert from Windows to FreeBSD Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:45:57 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <0ffe01c1a371$661d1b20$6600640a@attbi.com> <012001c1a4f8$9fb5eff0$c42a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> <02012512323903.01099@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> In-Reply-To: <02012512323903.01099@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02012421455703.07381@proxy.pt.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Thursday 24 January 2002 21:02, Brian Astill wrote: > On Friday 25 January 2002 03:30, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Brian T.Schellenberger" > > > > > to chmod (which means to change permissions, by the way--not sure > > > why it's called "chmod") or anything else to get it to work for a > > > regular user, and I > > > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3545 Jan 8 11:30 znew > > > > the mode is 555. > > Well I never! Try searching for that in a reference book if you are as > ignorant as I am! Thanks very much. From your reaction, I'm guessing you have yet to discover the built-in man pages, since the man page for "chmod" has an excellent explanation. To get at it, simply type "man chmod" at a shell prompt. Use the up/down keys to scroll through and hit "q" when you're done to return to the prompt. Just about anything you want to know about has a man page for it, and they are usually *very* well written. Some interesting places to start: man man man hier man security man tuning -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message