[plug] Questions for information

[Kai]

Hi James,

1. You'll need to check who the file is owned by, if you do this at the 
command prompt:

ls -l

If you're not the owner of the file you'll have to use chown to change 
the ownership of the file. eg if you're username is james you'd need to 
do this:

chown james:james [insert file name here]

but if you're not the owner of the file you'll get this message -
chown: [insert file name here]: invalid user
You'll need to be root to run chown.

Question two's already been covered by Cameron :)

Cheers

Kai

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Elliott" <James.Elliott at wn.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 10:15 PM
Subject: [plug] Questions for information


 > Hi all
 >
 > Here are a couple of questions I have been agonising over all day - I 
would
 > be obliged if any of you can help by explaining them to me.
 >
 > 1.  How can you have permission to modify a file that you cannot delete.
 >
 > 2.  This command copies the contents of a file called "answers" into 
another
 > file called "answers#2", but why? - how does it work?
 >       $  > answers#2 < answers cat
 >
 > Hope you can help...
 >
 > Kind regards,
 >
 > James Elliott