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List:       coreutils-bug
Subject:    bug#9788: chown gets permission denied
From:       Richard Woolley <rwoolley () marvell ! com>
Date:       2011-10-18 23:59:04
Message-ID: 83185AA24C678642A07282B8BB1340B613DCA70BC7 () sc-vexch3 ! marvell ! com
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Hi Alan,

Thank you!  I'd never seen the ?'s before so was stumped.

Richard 

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Curry [mailto:pacman-cu@kosh.dhis.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 4:37 PM
To: Richard Woolley
Cc: 9788@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9788: chown gets permission denied

Richard Woolley writes:
> 
> When trying to change ownership of the files in a directory, I 
> mistakenly h= ad the settings wrong in the command, so I got the 
> following ls -l total 16
> drw-rw-r--  4  user proj1 4096 Sep 28 14:23 doc/
> drw-rw-r-- 24 user proj1 4096 Sep 28 14:27 modules/
> drw-rw-r--  3 user proj1 4096 Sep 28 14:23 project/

Your first problem is that you've got some directories here with read permission but \
no x permission. In that situation, this happens:

> ls -l project
> total 0
> ?--------- ? ? ? ?            ? compile.conf
> ?--------- ? ? ? ?            ? myproject.conf
> ?--------- ? ? ? ?            ? novas_fli.so

ls can read the directory, getting the filenames, but the lack of x permission \
prevents it from getting any other information.

First chmod u+x doc modules project, then see what you get from ls -l on them.

--
Alan Curry


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