Firefox lock file?

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 16:36 -0800, Ray Parrish wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
> > On 02/10/2009 06:48 AM, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> > [snips]
> >
> > You can find out if files in your home directory are
> >   
> >> owned by a user other than yourself by running in your home directory:
> >>
> >> find . ! -user username -ls
> >>
> >> This will give you a list of the files with the wrong ownership.
> >>     
> >
> > Good suggestion. You might want to pipe that to a text file so that you
> > can easily view it if the output is too long:
> >
> > find . ! -user username -ls > ownership
> >
> >
> >   
> I tried to reply to this a couple of hours ago, but the message got 
> passed to the moderator for being too big. I've also been a bit slow in 
> answering due to being sick.
> 
> Here are the error messages tossed by the above command -
> 
> ray at ray-desktop:~$ cd ~/
> ray at ray-desktop:~$ find . ! -user ray -ls > ownership.txt
> find: ./.local/share/Trash/files/rkhunter-1.3.4/files: Permission denied
> find: ./.synaptic: Permission denied
> find: ./.mozilla/default/grybzfit.slt: Permission denied
> find: ./.kde4/share/apps/kgrubeditor: Permission denied
> find: ./.dbus: Permission denied
> find: ./.gconf/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/rtsp: Permission denied
> find: ./.gconf/apps/firestarter/client/filter: Permission denied
> find: ./.gconf/apps/firestarter/firewall: Permission denied
> find: ./.gconf/apps/gnome-settings/EtherApe: Permission denied
> find: ./.gconf/apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/current_line: Permission 
> denied
> find: ./.gconf/apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/colors: Permission denied
> find: ./.gconf/apps/totem/plugins/youtube: Permission denied

Try running the find with sudo.  That will eliminate the Permission
denied messages.  It does look like you have a number of files which
should be owned by you and are not.
-- 
Smoot Carl-Mitchell
Computer Systems and
Network Consultant
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