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|    Chad Adams to All    |
|    Re: Issue installing    |
|    24 Nov 17 08:01:24    |
      On a previous unzipped directory. Not this one.                            On 02:00 24/11 , Chad Adams wrote:       >For that matter I have chown -R 777 * to ensure there were no permission       >issues. Same issue. And resulting error.        >       >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)        >              --        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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