~/.gconf problem

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 23 July 2014 10:25:55 Kelly Dunlop did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:17:51AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 July 2014 06:40:35 Chris Green did opine
> > 
> > And Gene did reply:
> > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 04:29:53AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > Greetings all;
> > > > 
> > > > Can someone tell be what to do with /home/me/.gconf?
> > > > 
> > > > According to an ls -la:
> > > > drw-r-xr-x  4 gene gene   4096 2014-07-22 12:48 .gconf
> > > > 
> > > > I own the thing, and I ought to be able to do whatever I want
> > > > with it, including copying a tree from a machine that gedit
> > > > works on, to a machine it won't work on.
> > > 
> > > Except that you don't have 'x' permission which will prevent you
> > > cd'ing to it.  To be able to enter a directory you need 'x'
> > > permission.
> > > 
> > > Standard, let everyone see but only I can write, permission is:-
> > > 
> > > drwxr-xr-x  4 gene gene   4096 2014-07-22 12:48 .gconf
> > > 
> > > 0755
> > 
> > And I find, on a machine where it all Just Works(TM)
> > drwsrwsrwx  4 gene gene   4096 2014-07-22 12:48 .gconf
> > 
> > "s"? don't have a clue what that tells me.  Don't recall ever
> > noticing that before. ???  Man page for ls doesn't discuss it.  And
> > I have yet to find a translation table that deciphers the 4 octal
> > bytes normally used to set this stuff.  I have only been using linux
> > since 1998, seems like I should have stumbled onto it somewhere in
> > 16 years.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On my version of Linux the man page to look at is chmod.  About halfway
> down the first page it gives you a list of what the letters mean and
> what the octal number is.

Found it. Needs a header "translation equ's" or some such. But it doesn't 
define that the number in parens is the number in that octal.
 
> s is setuid by the way.

The previous 2 paragraphs defines that also.  But only as u+ or g+ (and 
minus of course.  IMO that man page composer went out of his way to be 
obtuse.
 
> Hope this is useful

Yes, thanks Kelly. I had scanned right over it in my previous readings of 
that page.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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