Re: Setting permissions

2004-03-22 Thread Aswin Venkat
Yes, that was indeed the problem. Thanks!. >This may not help at all, but then again it may.. >Anyway, I use vim as my default editor, and I had a similar problem >writing .viminfo (where vim stores info like command history, and >bookmarks). The problem was that the file was created during a su

Re: Setting permissions

2004-03-22 Thread Aswin Venkat
Yes, that was indeed the problem. Thanks!. >This may not help at all, but then again it may.. >Anyway, I use vim as my default editor, and I had a similar problem >writing .viminfo (where vim stores info like command history, and >bookmarks). The problem was that the file was created during a su

Re: Setting permissions

2004-03-21 Thread Matt Foster
Quoting s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Incoming from Aswin Venkat: > > > > One problem that i've been noticing is that i cannot get emacs > > to auto backup unless i open the emacs session in sudo mode. If i open > > Could it be not that it cannot auto backup, but that you've TOLD it > not to

Re: Setting permissions

2004-03-21 Thread Matt Foster
Quoting s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Incoming from Aswin Venkat: > > > > One problem that i've been noticing is that i cannot get emacs > > to auto backup unless i open the emacs session in sudo mode. If i open > > Could it be not that it cannot auto backup, but that you've TOLD it > not to

Re: Setting permissions

2004-03-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Aswin Venkat: > > One problem that i've been noticing is that i cannot get emacs > to auto backup unless i open the emacs session in sudo mode. If i open Could it be not that it cannot auto backup, but that you've TOLD it not to auto backup, via emacs' config file? Try "emacs -q fi

Re: Setting permissions

2004-03-03 Thread Aswin Venkat
> Based on this, I'd say nothing's wrong and I can't see why you're > having a problem. Perhaps we should back up and you should describe > the problems more explicitly. > > When you try to back up your programs as "anv", what happens? What > are the commands you're using and what are the

Re: Setting permissions

2004-03-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Aswin Venkat: > > One problem that i've been noticing is that i cannot get emacs > to auto backup unless i open the emacs session in sudo mode. If i open Could it be not that it cannot auto backup, but that you've TOLD it not to auto backup, via emacs' config file? Try "emacs -q fi

Re: Setting permissions

2004-03-03 Thread Aswin Venkat
> Based on this, I'd say nothing's wrong and I can't see why you're > having a problem. Perhaps we should back up and you should describe > the problems more explicitly. > > When you try to back up your programs as "anv", what happens? What > are the commands you're using and what are the

Re: Setting permissions

2004-03-01 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Aswin Venkat: > > Thanks for the email. The user directory is a simple debian > filesystem. Here are the results of the commands you suggested: > > s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >- In your $HOME, do "touch blah", now what does "ls -l blah" say? > > > >-r

Re: Setting permissions

2004-03-01 Thread Aswin Venkat
Thanks for the email. The user directory is a simple debian filesystem. Here are the results of the commands you suggested: s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This sounds very odd. Is this user directory a simple Debian > filesystem or is there something like samba or NFS going on? > Try

Re: Setting permissions

2004-03-01 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Aswin Venkat: > > Thanks for the email. The user directory is a simple debian > filesystem. Here are the results of the commands you suggested: > > s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >- In your $HOME, do "touch blah", now what does "ls -l blah" say? > > > >-r

Re: Setting permissions

2004-03-01 Thread Aswin Venkat
Thanks for the email. The user directory is a simple debian filesystem. Here are the results of the commands you suggested: s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This sounds very odd. Is this user directory a simple Debian > filesystem or is there something like samba or NFS going on? > Try

Re: Setting permissions

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Aswin Venkat: > > I'm a relative newcomer to debian installation though i have used > debian for a while. Just recently i installed debian on my > laptop(2.4.22). Most things are working alright except my file > permissions are a little haywire. Each time i have to run say a make > f

Re: Setting permissions

2004-02-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Aswin Venkat: > > I'm a relative newcomer to debian installation though i have used > debian for a while. Just recently i installed debian on my > laptop(2.4.22). Most things are working alright except my file > permissions are a little haywire. Each time i have to run say a make > f

Setting permissions

2004-02-29 Thread Aswin Venkat
Hi all, I'm a relative newcomer to debian installation though i have used debian for a while. Just recently i installed debian on my laptop(2.4.22). Most things are working alright except my file permissions are a little haywire. Each time i have to run say a make file that creates or removes fil

Setting permissions

2004-02-29 Thread Aswin Venkat
Hi all, I'm a relative newcomer to debian installation though i have used debian for a while. Just recently i installed debian on my laptop(2.4.22). Most things are working alright except my file permissions are a little haywire. Each time i have to run say a make file that creates or removes fil