Stupid Ubuntu 8.10

[NoOp]

On 11/09/2008 05:48 PM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
> 
>> On 11/08/2008 01:48 PM, Francisco Borges wrote:
>>> » On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 04:42AM -0500, vafa at aol.com.au wrote:
>>> 
>>>> If I copy (sudo cp -r dirname) a directory to a root directory (where
>>>> TeX is installed), then I can not use it in ubuntu 8.10.
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>> Any idea how to resolve this problem?
>>> 
>>> You probably have the ownership of the directory set to root, and now
>>> you can't use it as a regular user.
>>> 
>>> Check the directory permissions:
>>> 
>>> ls -la /MyDirectory
>>> 
>>> to change the ownership of a directory or of files use
>>> 
>>> sudo chown -R vafa.vafa /MyDirectory
>> 
>> Perhaps you mean:
>> 
>> sudo chown -R vafa:vafa /MyDirectory
>> 
>> notice the colon between vafa and vafa vs the period.
> 
> It's nice that you can do that, but I've always used periods...

$ man chown