On a previous unzipped directory. Not this one.



On 02:00 24/11 , Chad Adams wrote:
>For that matter I have chown -R 777 * to ensure there were no permission
>issues. Same issue. And resulting error. 
>
>On 17:37 23/11 , Jeff Smith wrote:
>>Hello Chad,
>>
>>> cadams@irc:/var/opt/bbbs$ 
>>
>>Ok, you installed BBBS to the /var/opt/bbbs directory?  Who owns the 
>>/var/opt/bbbs directory? It appears that you are running BBBS as user
>>"irc".  At a command prompt do a "ls -l -d /var/opt/bbbs" to see the 
>ownership
>> and current permissions of the directory where you have BBBS installed.
>>
>>Here everything in /var/opt is owned by root. And here BBBS is run as user
>bbbs
>> and BBBS is installed at /home/bbbs and a "ls -l -d /home/bbbs" shows:
>>
>>drwxr-xr-x 58 bbbs bbbs 20480 Nov 23 23:00 /home/bbbs
>>
>>Which shows that /home/bbbs is owned by group "bbbs" and user "bbbs"  and
>>drwxr-xr-x means:
>>
>>"d" means the subject is a directory and not a file.
>>
>>"rwx" means the directory's owner "bbbs" can list its contents, create new
>>files within it, and descend into it.
>>
>>"r-x" means members of the directory's group can list its contents and
descend
>>into it
>>
>>"r-x" means other users can list the directory's contents and descend into it
>>
>>And a ls -l /home/bbbs/bcfg4 shows
>>
>>-rwxrwxr-x 1 bbbs bbbs 278528 Dec 13  2016 /home/bbbs/bcfg4
>>
>>The first "-" means that it is a file and not a directory. 
>>
>>"r" means that user "bbbs" has read access
>>
>>"w" means that user "bbbs" has write access
>>
>>"x" means that user "bbbs" has execute access.
>>
>>
>>Jeff
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-3
>>
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