~/.gconf problem

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 23 July 2014 14:15:58 Tom H did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> 
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.
> 
> "s" means that both the setuid bit and the execute bit are set:
> 
> $ touch GENE
> 
> $ chmod 4700 GENE
> 
> $ ll
> total 0
> -rws------ 1 th th 0 2014-07-23 14:09 GENE*
> 
> $ chmod 4600 GENE
> 
> $ ll
> total 0
> -rwS------ 1 th th 0 2014-07-23 14:09 GENE
> 
> And by the way:
> 
> $ ll -d /home/th/.gconf
> drwx------ 4 th th 4.0K 2014-07-22 20:41 /home/th/.gconf/

Chuckle, none of which looks like what I found on the non-performing box, 
the fresh install.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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