[ubuntu-uk] rsync chgrp problem - advice, please?

[Robert McWilliam]

On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:52:11 +0100
luxxius <luxxius at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I cannot access the music folder or its subfolders and files unless I
> become root (sudo su).  I can then see the folders and files.  This is
> the output of stat on the top level folder:
> 
> root at diana-desktop:/home/diana# stat music
>     File: `music'
>     Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096
> directory Device: 807h/2055d      Inode: 16122206    Links: 69
> Access: (0664/drw-rw-r--)  Uid: ( 1000/   diana)   Gid: (    0/
> root) Access: 2007-06-07 10:26:00.000000000 +0100
> Modify: 2007-05-22 15:42:32.000000000 +0100
> Change: 2007-06-07 08:46:51.000000000 +0100
> 

I've just done some playing here and found the same problem with
accessing a directory with drw-rw-r-- permissions. The problem goes
away if I add executable permissions (making the permissions 764 for
u+x). I'm not sure why you need executable permissions on a directory
to see it's contents though...

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