[thelist] linux permission denied

Timothy J. Luoma luomat at peak.org
Mon Dec 9 11:38:00 CST 2002


On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:31:28 -0000, Andrew Maynes
<andrew at humanbehaviour.co.uk> wrote:

> in my battle against Linux and its many capabilies I have now encountered
> another hurdle... permission denied!
>
> if I type /etc
> /sbin
> /home
>
> etc etc I just get the permission denied repsonse.  I am logged in as
> root! Could someone highlight the erro of my ways?


could it be that whatever shell you're using doesn't realize you are trying
to 'cd' to those directories?



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Timothy J. Luoma
luomat at peak.org
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