~/.gconf problem

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 23 July 2014 06:40:35 Chris Green did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 04:29:53AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings all;
> > 
> > Can someone tell be what to do with /home/me/.gconf?
> > 
> > According to an ls -la:
> > drw-r-xr-x  4 gene gene   4096 2014-07-22 12:48 .gconf
> > 
> > I own the thing, and I ought to be able to do whatever I want with
> > it, including copying a tree from a machine that gedit works on, to
> > a machine it won't work on.
> 
> Except that you don't have 'x' permission which will prevent you
> cd'ing to it.  To be able to enter a directory you need 'x' permission.
> 
> Standard, let everyone see but only I can write, permission is:-
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  4 gene gene   4096 2014-07-22 12:48 .gconf
> 
> 0755
And I find, on a machine where it all Just Works(TM)
drwsrwsrwx  4 gene gene   4096 2014-07-22 12:48 .gconf

"s"? don't have a clue what that tells me.  Don't recall ever noticing 
that before. ???  Man page for ls doesn't discuss it.  And I have yet to 
find a translation table that deciphers the 4 octal bytes normally used to 
set this stuff.  I have only been using linux since 1998, seems like I 
should have stumbled onto it somewhere in 16 years.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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