Hi Alan, Thank you! I'd never seen the ?'s before so was stumped.
Richard -----Original Message----- From: Alan Curry [mailto:pacman...@kosh.dhis.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 4:37 PM To: Richard Woolley Cc: 9...@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#9788: chown gets permission denied Richard Woolley writes: > > When trying to change ownership of the files in a directory, I > mistakenly h= ad the settings wrong in the command, so I got the > following ls -l total 16 > drw-rw-r-- 4 user proj1 4096 Sep 28 14:23 doc/ > drw-rw-r-- 24 user proj1 4096 Sep 28 14:27 modules/ > drw-rw-r-- 3 user proj1 4096 Sep 28 14:23 project/ Your first problem is that you've got some directories here with read permission but no x permission. In that situation, this happens: > ls -l project > total 0 > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? compile.conf > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? myproject.conf > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? novas_fli.so ls can read the directory, getting the filenames, but the lack of x permission prevents it from getting any other information. First chmod u+x doc modules project, then see what you get from ls -l on them. -- Alan Curry
