Re: permission problems (and more)

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

At 10:51 PM 5/5/2004, you wrote:
>--- Larry Hall wrote:
>> OK, first check the output of /var/log/cron.log.
>> If that doesn't clarify the situation for you, send
>> it and the output of 'ls -Rl /var' to the list.
>
>$ ls -Ral /var
>/var:
>total 0
>drwxr-x---+   3 user     Users           0 Thu Mar 25 18:43:15 2004 cache/
>drwxrwxrwt+   3 user     Users           0 Wed Oct 29 10:45:04 2003 cron/
>dr-xr-xr-x+   2 Administ Administ        0 Mon Apr 12 12:02:10 2004 empty/
>drwxr-x---+   2 user     Users        4096 Mon Apr 19 16:38:40 2004 log/
>drwxr-x---+   3 user     Users           0 Wed Oct 29 10:43:56 2003 run/
>drwxr-x---+   2 user     Users           0 Wed Oct 29 10:43:03 2003 tmp/
>
>/var/cache:
>total 0
>drwxr-x---+   2 user     Users           0 Thu Mar 25 18:43:15 2004 man/
>
>/var/cache/man:
>total 0
>
>/var/cron:
>total 0
>drwxrwxrwt+   2 user     Users           0 Mon Apr 19 15:46:13 2004 tabs/
>
>/var/cron/tabs:
>total 0
>-rw-r-----    1 Administ SYSTEM          0 Mon Apr 19 15:46:13 2004 administrator
>-rw-r-----    1 user     SYSTEM          0 Mon Apr 19 14:34:24 2004 user
>
>/var/empty:
>total 0
>
>/var/log:
>total 1564
>-rwx------+   1 user     Domain U        0 Mon Apr 12 12:02:09 2004 lastlog*
>-rwxr-x---    1 user     Users     1502256 Fri Apr 23 10:29:25 2004 setup.log*
>-rwxr-x---    1 user     Users       97787 Fri Apr 23 10:29:25 2004 setup.log.full*
>
>/var/run:
>total 0
>drwxr-x---+   2 user     Users           0 Wed Oct 29 10:43:56 2003 stunnel/
>-rwxr-x---    1 user     Users           0 Fri Apr 23 10:28:02 2004 utmp*
>
>/var/run/stunnel:
>total 0
>
>/var/tmp:
>total 0
>
>
>Again, I think I have the permissions screwed
>up. A couple of people have suggested that I
>reinstall everything, but even if I do that, I
>have to make certain that I don't repeat any
>mistakes that I made.


Then again, sometimes it's easier to start from a known state and work
step by step than to try to find where something went wrong.

 From a comparison of your environment with mine, I see that you don't give
specific permissions to 


--
Larry  


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