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Date:      Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:13:22 -0800
From:      "Paul A. Scott" <pscott@skycoast.us>
To:        Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, Peter Milne <peter@milneweb.com>
Cc:        Free BSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Directory
Message-ID:  <BA03B3C2.142DA%pscott@skycoast.us>
In-Reply-To: <200211221808.gAMI8B901708@clunix.cl.msu.edu>

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On 11/22/02 10:08 AM, "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote:
>> Now I am trying to set permissions and I cannot get it done.
<snip>
>> $ 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


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