Firefox lock file?

[Brian McKee]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Jason Crain <jason at bluetree.ath.cx> wrote:
> On Wed, February 11, 2009 2:55 pm, Ray Parrish wrote:
>> Ray Parrish wrote:
>> I just tried to chnage the permissions on the .mozilla folder's contents
>> and got the following error.
>>
>> ray at ray-desktop:~/.mozilla$ sudo chown -R ray:ray
>> chown: missing operand after `ray:ray'
>> Try `chown --help' for more information.
>>
>> I don't know how to specify all files for the file target which is
>> missing in the command according to man chown.
>
> Try `sudo chown -R ray:ray .'


NOOOO - you can get into trouble that way.  (at least I can!)

Develop the habit of chown'ing the enclosing folder - preferably with
a complete path.

  sudo chown -R ray:ray /home/ray/.mozilla

'Cause if you do chown -R .* or chown -R .. you'll regret it right away :-)

Brian