Setting Premisions

[big_k105]

ok i was wondering how i would go about setting permissions to a file and hwne i do that it changes all the files in the directory to the same permission that the parent directory has.

[jasonlambert]

Is this any good:
http://www.this_site_does_not_exist/viewtopic.php?t=96

you can use the "*" card to specify all files, and -r or -R (forgot which) to say recursive (all subdirectories).

Jason

[big_k105]

not really i dont think any of them let every file inside the directory change as well. i tryed the chmod 777 directory and it changed the directory permissions but it left everything inside it alone. maybe it wont matter if i change them or not

[jasonlambert]

if you've done the directory 777, then to do all the files and folders inside the same: "chmod 777 /path/to/dir/* -R"

Jason

[big_k105]

ok i will give that a try
thanks

[big_k105]

that command worked perfectly jst the way i wanted it to it made it so much easier then goin thru and changing each file seperately. i only need to do half of them but its better to change all since now i know for a fact that i cant run into anymore of these dang permission errors on my programs.

thats one thing that bothers me. when i write a program and it runs perfectly on my system and then i go and put it on someone elses system and it seems to work great then all of a sudden we start getting permission errors. /rant over

[jasonlambert]

If it's a C program, or any other program with a Makefile, I tend to put chmod and chown commands into the makefile itself, usually solves the problem to some degree.

Jason

[big_k105]

ts a Visual Basic program that is connectly to files on the network using samba. all i really do here at work is vb. but after i get c++ down i hope they will let me dable in that alittle.

[flw]

if you've done the directory 777, then to do all the files and folders inside the same: "chmod 777 /path/to/dir/* -R"

Is that in you chmod tut? If not could you include it?

Thanks,

[big_k105]

it doenst seem to be in the tut. and i couldnt even find it on the page that the tut links too. so it probably would be a good thing to add to the tut.

edit: i am now a linux Engineer with 250 posts sweet

Edit by flw: K's da man, K's da man, K's da man