/etc/ permissions

[Charles Yao]

Hi guys,

Thanks for the reply, i was able to figure it out yesterday. I found a
way to log in as root and chaged the permissions on the filesystem. I
was then able to move the files where i needed to. i855crt works
perfectly now after some tweaking.

Charles

On 8/24/05, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> 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
> 
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