On 07/14/18, Jan Panteltje said the following...
 
 JP> 
 JP> ...
 JP> sudo cp -r /home/Desktop/Temp/public/* /var/www/html/
 JP> ....
 JP> 

I tried this command in root and I tried it with /home/Desk... as well as
~/home/...
and it doesn't copy files over.

 JP> 
 JP> So destination directory is OK?
 JP> sudo ls /var/www/html/
 JP> 
 JP> how about the source directory?
 JP> sudo ls -rlt /home/Desktop/Temp/public/
 JP> 
 JP> It must be one of the 2 for that error message.
 JP> 
 JP> And why not just be root and forget sudo
 JP> sudo su -
 JP> 
 JP> try:
 JP> echo "Hello" > /var/www/html/test
 JP> cat /var/www/html/test
 JP> should show 'hello'
 JP> 
 JP> Just run some simple checks.
 JP> 

And I did this and I was able to copy to test and other things as well....

cannot seem to copy the directory over to populate the html directory with
the html files I want...

Thanx

IB JOE
AKA Joe Schweier
SysOp of Joe's Computer & BBS
Telnet: joesbbs.com

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