user permissions problems

[Jimmy Wu]

I am working right in the home directory
the permissions, as listed by ls -l /home, for my jimmywu folder are
"drwxr-xr-x"
the append  ">>" works

so the problem must be gedit


On 7/10/07, andy baxter <andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
>
> andy baxter wrote:
> > What happens if you open a terminal as you, and then do:
> >
> > echo "some words" > testfile1.txt
> >
> > in your home directory ?
> >
> > If there's a text file you don't mind altering (by adding lines to the
> > end), you could also try:
> >
> > echo "some more words" >> filename.txt
> >
> > With filename.txt changed to whatever the file name is.
> >
> > This should narrow things down a bit as to whether the problem is with
> > permissions or with gedit itself.
> >
> > Also, what are the ownership and permissions for the directory itself?
> > I.e. what do you get if you do:
> >
> > ls -l /home/jimmywu ?
> >
> >
>
> Sorry, I meant to say do:
>
> ls -l /home
>
> and then look for permissions on the subdirectory jimmywu. Also, are you
> working in the home directory itself, or in a subdirectory of it? If the
> latter, what are the permissions on that directory?
>
> > andy
> >
> > Jimmy Wu wrote:
> >
> >> update: I just tried OpenOffice, and that lets me save documents
> >> don't know why that works and gedit won't
> >>
> >>
> >> On 7/10/07, *Jimmy Wu* < jimmywu013 at gmail.com
> >> <mailto:jimmywu013 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     yes the files are owned by me, with read AND write permissions
> >>     they are not marked read-only, and yet save is disabled
> >>     I can't even save a new document that I create
> >>     ?!?
> >>
>
>
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