/etc/ permissions

[Derek Broughton]

ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 09:28 +0800, Charles Yao wrote:
>> im trying to add i855crt to /etc/ and i855crt to /usr/local/sbin/ but
>> ubuntu will not let me saying i do not have eough permissions. how can
>> i change the permissions on my file system? it keeps saying that i am
>> not the owner and therefore cannot change permissions.
>> 
> What are you trying to do exactly?  Doing something wrong in "/etc" or
> "/usr" might render your system useless or even worse, vulnerable to
> security risks!

And besides which, you're going about this wrong.  You're trying to use
i855-crt from source, aren't you?  Install it via aptitude/apt-get/synaptic
(they're in the universe repository) and you don't need to move anything
into /etc or /usr/local (given your level of knowledge of Linux, you
should, at this time, have _nothing_ in /usr/local - ubuntu will never
install anything there).
-- 
derek