Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA02857; Fri, 15 Mar 96 16:39:34 EST Received: from pain.lcs.mit.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA11592; Fri, 15 Mar 96 16:38:36 EST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pain.lcs.mit.edu (8.7.4/8.6.12) id NAA25625; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 13:54:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from netcom11.netcom.com by pain.lcs.mit.edu (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA25412 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 13:49:16 -0500 (EST) Received: by netcom11.netcom.com (8.6.13/Netcom) id KAA24938; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 10:49:10 -0800 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 10:49:09 -0800 (PST) From: Kerry Gray X-Sender: kgray@netcom11 To: Tank Cc: netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with v1.1 (i386) In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG Precedence: list X-Loop: netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, Tank wrote: > Greets Again- > > Another problem I am having in addition to the ether interface is > the following. > > I created an account for myself. > I copied the dot files from /usr/shar/skel. > I chown'd the files to myself. > I chmod'd the file to 700 > > I could not modify the files. > > I then chmod'd the files to 777, but still no luck... > Did you remember to chown the directory itself? If you don't have write permission on the directory, you will be unable to delete or create files.