From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 11 05:25:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA27165 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 05:25:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from user.xtdl.com (user.xtdl.com [206.25.228.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA27159 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 05:25:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sderdau@xtdl.com) Received: from derdau.xtdl.com (derdau.xtdl.com [206.25.228.100]) by user.xtdl.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA15402; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 08:30:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <352F6121.167EB0E7@xtdl.com> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 08:25:05 -0400 From: "Stephen A. Derdau" X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike72757 CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsdunix version 2.2.5 References: <3e4c0b6.352f5f11@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm a newbie so you may want to wait for someone else to respond. I did the same thing after rebuilding the Kernel a few dozen times. Instead of typing "cd " ../../compile/MYKERNEL I forgot the cd in front of the command. Or maybe you have an alias cd set up in your profile. and cd /usr means something else....? Mike72757 wrote: > > Hi my name is Scott Powers > when I type in something like > /usr > it gives me a message saying that permision is denied > I can't figure out what I am doing wrong > note:I am the only person using the computer it is not networked > > thankyou > > Scott Powers > > Mike72757@aol.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message