Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Runs as root but not as user

[Anne Wilson <cannewilson tiscali co uk>]

On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 11:42 am, Stefan Bruens wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 14. September 2003 11:33 schrieb Kilian Krause:
> > Ehrm, you're mocking me, right? ALL of those above device
> > symlinks miss the write flag. How about you try and chmod 660 all
> > of them? They should read:
> > lrw-rw---- ...
> > and
> > crw-rw---- ..
>
> $ man chmod
> ...
> chmod  never  changes the permissions of symbolic links; the chmod
> system call cannot change their permis­sions.  This is not a
> problem since the permissions of symbolic links are never used.
>
Fine - so as long as I've ensured that what they point to have rw 
permissions I should be ok.  Except that I'm not.  Thanks for the 
info, though.

Anne
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