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Originally posted by Spydir Web:
I installed slackware 7.1
Slakware kicks ass!!!! That'd the same thing I run... are you, by any chance, from the SF Bay Area? Walnut Creek CDROM, the guys who develop Slakware, is down the street from my house. They claim to have to most trafficked FTP server in the world... I've seen their setup, and it IS pretty pissed off...
what files are you trying to edit? If they are files in /etc, you'll need to be root to edit them. If you chgrp / chown them, they'll simply be reset to user and group root on next restart, because Slakware does "basic permission sanity checks" every time it starts.
from what I've read, though, I'm guessing you're either 1. not changing your ownerships properly, or 2. creating the files in a directory that spydir doesn't have write permissions in (i.e. /root, or just about any directory other than /home/spydir).
Woever created the files in the first place owns them, so if you were working as someone other than spydir when you made them, you'll have to properly chgrp and chown them (you'll need to be root to do this) :
# change the group ownership to "users" (default for new accounts)
chgrp users yourfile
# change owner to spydir
chown spydir yourfile
The other thing you'll have to do is move your files to your home directory, if they're not there already :
mv yourfile /home/spydir/
if worse comes to worse, you could give rwx permissions on that file to the world :
chmod 777 yourfile # BAD AND SCARY, but it works.
all this, of course, is assuming you have your home directory is on a normal mount, and not something funky like nfs or smbfs.
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