Re: debian utility question
On 20/04/2008, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> wrote:
> Does debian have a utility I can run to check and repair disk permissions?
> On a mac under applications and utilities and under disk repair utility
> there's a function for repair disk permissions which can check permissions
> against a known default set and repair if necessary. It could be the
> problems I'm having with dpkg may be because some permissions somewhere
> aren't set right.
In most GUI File-managers you check and change permissions by right
clicking an item and clicking properties (or something similar). You
may also want to take a look at the "chmod" command". It's probably
worth noting that generally dpkg is run as root - whenever I see
instructions on using it,, the instructions always seem to follow the
format
su
dpkg ....
Peter
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