Dear All,

I am trying to copy some files on my desktop to the following directory:

/var/lib/boinc-client/projects/.

I found that I did not have permission to copy to the projects file.

I went through the following commands.

I opened up a terminal and logged in as superuser

su

I then pointed to the projects file and then modified the ownerships with chmod

Unfortunately this did not work.

Here are the ownerships if the file projects.

dr-xr-x--x 3 boinc boinc 4096 2008-04-18 07:00 projects

This return obviously says there are three files within projects but all I find is one named setiathome.berkeley.edu

Why the mismatch?


Could anybody help me out.

Once I have changed the ownerships in order that I can copy files to it will I be able to drag and drop or will I have to use the cp command?

Nevica

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If I recall correctly chmod alters filepermissions, but ownership is set via chown? (I'm not too sure, never used chown).

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If I recall correctly chmod alters filepermissions, but ownership is set via chown? (I'm not too sure, never used chown).

Yup. chmod does permissions. chmod does both owners and groups. There is also chgrp.

If you need to change both the owner and group, you'll need to do chown ownername:groupname substituting the correct owner and group, of course.

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Kathryn :o)

dr-xr-x--x 3 boinc boinc 4096 2008-04-18 07:00 projects

This return obviously says there are three files within projects but all I find is one named setiathome.berkeley.edu

Why the mismatch?

There's no mismatch. 3 is the link count. The first is the parent directory (..), the second is the self-reference (.) and the third is the S@H subdirectory.

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