Unknown owner,group,permissions,etc.

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 12 June 2006 04:18, Matthew Kuiken wrote:
> I believe that directories need to be executable in order to be
> read/traversed.  Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Almost right. You must have read permissions to list the contents of 
the directory, i.e. perform an ls <dirname>

You need execute permissions to move into it, i.e. perform cd 
<dirname>

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Alan McKinnon
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