Subj : Re: Issue installing
To   : All
From : Chad Adams
Date : Fri Nov 24 2017 08:00 am

For that matter I have chown -R 777 * to ensure there were no permission
issues. Same issue. And resulting error. 

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
>
>
>
>
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