Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 22:06:00 +0000 From: Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios <kernel@tdnet.com.br> To: Harvey Lord <harveylord@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: permission Message-ID: <39076848.3D6DA475@tdnet.com.br> References: <20000427004029.68544.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Harvey Lord wrote: > > Hi > I emailed lastnight about this question. > I logged in as root. Root is the only account on my boxes. > I would use say Xterm to edit a file. I would 'Permission denied' > I then go to the file manager or a text editor and I can do it. > The problem happens with Linux, Solaris7, and FreeBSD. > With BSD, I only have Xterm and I tried to compile the kernel but that fail > because permission denied when I went to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC. > Remember, I logged in as root. > > Is there something I should do during installation??? > > Thanx > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Never saw such a problem! Try to see which uig/gid root owns! -- The polite thing to do has always been to address people as they wish to be addressed, to treat them in a way they think dignified. But it is equally important to accept and tolerate different standards of courtesy, not expecting everyone else to adapt to one's own preferences. Only then can we hope to restore the insult to its proper social function of expressing true distaste. -- Judith Martin, "Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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