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   Message 1,876 of 2,762   
   Chad Adams to All   
   Re: Issue installing   
   24 Nov 17 07:59:19   
   
   -rwxr-xr-x 1 cadams cadams 1.2M Jan 27  2007 bbbs   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 5.5K Jan 28  2007 bbbs.001   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 9.9K Jan 28  2007 bbbs.002   
   -rwxr-xr-x 1 cadams cadams  48K Jan 27  2007 bbbsd   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams   58 Dec 24  1999 bbbs.key   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams  23K Jan 28  2007 bbbstxt   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams  25K Jan 28  2007 bbbstxt1   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams  24K Jan 28  2007 bbbstxt2   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams  24K Jan 28  2007 bbbstxt3   
   -rwxr-xr-x 1 cadams cadams 212K Jan 27  2007 bcfg4   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams  20K Jan 28  2007 brobo.wht   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 2.4K Jan 28  2007 colors.bbb   
   drwxr-xr-x 2 cadams cadams 4.0K Jan 28  2007 feelings   
   drwxr-xr-x 2 cadams cadams 4.0K Dec 24  1999 htdocs   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 5.0K Jan 28  2007 inet.bbb   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 6.7K Jan 28  2007 LICENSE.txt   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams   82 Dec 24  1999 login.bbb   
   drwxr-xr-x 2 cadams cadams  12K Jan 28  2007 menus   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams   34 Dec 24  1999 _mg   
   drwxr-xr-x 2 cadams cadams 4.0K Dec 24  1999 misc   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams  601 Dec 24  1999 README.txt   
   -rwxr-xr-x 1 cadams cadams 7.2K Jan 27  2007 ripc   
   drwxr-xr-x 3 cadams cadams 4.0K Dec 25  1999 scripts   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 608K Dec 24  1999 sysop.gui   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 617K Dec 24  1999 sysop.htm   
   -rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 626K Dec 24  1999 sysop.txt   
   cadams@irc:/var/opt/bbbs$ ./bcfg4 0   
   -bash: ./bcfg4: No such file or directory   
   cadams@irc:/var/opt/bbbs$   
      
      
   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   
   >   
   >   
   >   
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