Subj : Re: Issue installing
To   : All
From : Chad Adams
Date : Fri Nov 24 2017 07:59 am

-rwxr-xr-x 1 cadams cadams 1.2M Jan 27  2007 bbbs
-rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 5.5K Jan 28  2007 bbbs.001
-rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 9.9K Jan 28  2007 bbbs.002
-rwxr-xr-x 1 cadams cadams  48K Jan 27  2007 bbbsd
-rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams   58 Dec 24  1999 bbbs.key
-rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams  23K Jan 28  2007 bbbstxt
-rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams  25K Jan 28  2007 bbbstxt1
-rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams  24K Jan 28  2007 bbbstxt2
-rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams  24K Jan 28  2007 bbbstxt3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 cadams cadams 212K Jan 27  2007 bcfg4
-rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams  20K Jan 28  2007 brobo.wht
-rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 2.4K Jan 28  2007 colors.bbb
drwxr-xr-x 2 cadams cadams 4.0K Jan 28  2007 feelings
drwxr-xr-x 2 cadams cadams 4.0K Dec 24  1999 htdocs
-rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 5.0K Jan 28  2007 inet.bbb
-rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 6.7K Jan 28  2007 LICENSE.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams   82 Dec 24  1999 login.bbb
drwxr-xr-x 2 cadams cadams  12K Jan 28  2007 menus
-rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams   34 Dec 24  1999 _mg
drwxr-xr-x 2 cadams cadams 4.0K Dec 24  1999 misc
-rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams  601 Dec 24  1999 README.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 cadams cadams 7.2K Jan 27  2007 ripc
drwxr-xr-x 3 cadams cadams 4.0K Dec 25  1999 scripts
-rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 608K Dec 24  1999 sysop.gui
-rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 617K Dec 24  1999 sysop.htm
-rw-r--r-- 1 cadams cadams 626K Dec 24  1999 sysop.txt
cadams@irc:/var/opt/bbbs$ ./bcfg4 0
-bash: ./bcfg4: No such file or directory
cadams@irc:/var/opt/bbbs$


On 17:37 23/11 , Jeff Smith wrote:
>Hello Chad,
>
>> cadams@irc:/var/opt/bbbs$ 
>
>Ok, you installed BBBS to the /var/opt/bbbs directory?  Who owns the 
>/var/opt/bbbs directory? It appears that you are running BBBS as user
>"irc".  At a command prompt do a "ls -l -d /var/opt/bbbs" to see the 
ownership
> and current permissions of the directory where you have BBBS installed.
>
>Here everything in /var/opt is owned by root. And here BBBS is run as user
bbbs
> and BBBS is installed at /home/bbbs and a "ls -l -d /home/bbbs" shows:
>
>drwxr-xr-x 58 bbbs bbbs 20480 Nov 23 23:00 /home/bbbs
>
>Which shows that /home/bbbs is owned by group "bbbs" and user "bbbs"  and
>drwxr-xr-x means:
>
>"d" means the subject is a directory and not a file.
>
>"rwx" means the directory's owner "bbbs" can list its contents, create new
>files within it, and descend into it.
>
>"r-x" means members of the directory's group can list its contents and descend
>into it
>
>"r-x" means other users can list the directory's contents and descend into it
>
>And a ls -l /home/bbbs/bcfg4 shows
>
>-rwxrwxr-x 1 bbbs bbbs 278528 Dec 13  2016 /home/bbbs/bcfg4
>
>The first "-" means that it is a file and not a directory. 
>
>"r" means that user "bbbs" has read access
>
>"w" means that user "bbbs" has write access
>
>"x" means that user "bbbs" has execute access.
>
>
>Jeff
>
>
>
>
>--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-3
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>

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