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|    Chad Adams to All    |
|    Re: Issue installing    |
|    24 Nov 17 07:54:29    |
      Irc is hostnane. I am logged in as user cadams and user cadams owns it:              I'll send you info:                            On 17:37 23/11 , Jeff Smith wrote:       >Hello Chad,       >       >> cadams@irc:/var/opt/bbbs$        >       >Ok, you installed BBBS to the /var/opt/bbbs directory? Who owns the        >/var/opt/bbbs directory? It appears that you are running BBBS as user       >"irc". At a command prompt do a "ls -l -d /var/opt/bbbs" to see the        ownership       > and current permissions of the directory where you have BBBS installed.       >       >Here everything in /var/opt is owned by root. And here BBBS is run as user       bbbs       > and BBBS is installed at /home/bbbs and a "ls -l -d /home/bbbs" shows:       >       >drwxr-xr-x 58 bbbs bbbs 20480 Nov 23 23:00 /home/bbbs       >       >Which shows that /home/bbbs is owned by group "bbbs" and user "bbbs" and       >drwxr-xr-x means:       >       >"d" means the subject is a directory and not a file.       >       >"rwx" means the directory's owner "bbbs" can list its contents, create new       >files within it, and descend into it.       >       >"r-x" means members of the directory's group can list its contents and descend       >into it       >       >"r-x" means other users can list the directory's contents and descend into it       >       >And a ls -l /home/bbbs/bcfg4 shows       >       >-rwxrwxr-x 1 bbbs bbbs 278528 Dec 13 2016 /home/bbbs/bcfg4       >       >The first "-" means that it is a file and not a directory.        >       >"r" means that user "bbbs" has read access       >       >"w" means that user "bbbs" has write access       >       >"x" means that user "bbbs" has execute access.       >       >       >Jeff       >       >       >       >       >--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-3       > * Origin: The Ouija Board (1:282/1031)        >              --        yrNews Usenet Reader for iOS       http://appstore.com/yrNewsUsenetReader              --- Mystic BBS/NNTP v1.12 A36 2017/11/21 (Linux/64)        * Origin: -=The ByteXchange BBS : bbs.thebytexchange.com=- (1:130/210)    |
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