~/.gconf problem

[Kelly Dunlop]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:17:51AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.

Hi,

On my version of Linux the man page to look at is chmod.  About halfway down
the first page it gives you a list of what the letters mean and what the octal
number is.

s is setuid by the way.

Hope this is useful
Kelly
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Kelly Dunlop
kelly at xyzzy.org.uk