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Re: Fatal error messages
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David Wright |
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Re: Fatal error messages |
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Sun, 27 Feb 2022 10:23:31 -0600 |
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On Sun 27 Feb 2022 at 05:35:25 (+0000), Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
> Many thanks - your thought about write access was right on the money. For
> reasons I can't determine, the folder in which I'm working had user write
> access removed, so its permissions were dr-xr-xr-x instead of drwxr-xr-x as
> they should have been. I don't know how I removed the write access, but
> indeed I did; it's now been re-instated and all works well (phew).
Various gotchas exist. A frequent one is unpacking an archive,
particularly as root, thereby copying the permissions embedded
within the archive, including that for the top-level directory.
Cheers,
David.