On 2018-07-01 19:35:46 William Morder wrote: > Some command-line may work the magic you want. [Change ~ to your username!] > chmod -R 700 /home/~/.trinity | chown -R ~/home/~/.trinity | chgrp -R ~ > /home/~/.trinity > and/or > chmod -R 700 /home/~/.trinity/* | chown -R ~/home/~/.trinity/* | chgrp -R > ~ /home/~/.trinity/* > (This give rwx permissions to user only, dep or whatever you call your > username.) > > If this doesn't work, try: > chmod -R 770 /home/~/.trinity | chown -R ~/home/~/.trinity | chgrp -R > ~ /home/~/.trinity > and/or > chmod -R 770 /home/~/.trinity/* | chown -R ~/home/~/.trinity/* | chgrp -R > ~ /home/~/.trinity/* > (This will give rwx permissions to user and group, both the same as your > username; some processes may operate under your group name, not as user.) > > NOTE WELL that I am using ~ to represent your top-secret username (which it > is better that you don't publish online, of course); the /* in this case > represents everything inside that folder, so I need the asterisk for that. > (I don't give out my own username to anybody, although I feel sure that all > the 3-letter government agencies have got it by now.) > > If this doesn't solve your problems, then you might have some deeper > issues. In the past, when I had similar experiences, I used to just > reinstall my system; but nowadays I try to avoid doing that when possible. > > Bill Since this is an ownership issue, not a privileges issue, one should use | chown <user>:<group> <filepath> to fix the ownership instead of changing the access privileges. Leslie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
