On Tuesday 29 May 2007 22:04, Paul Varner wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 20:14 -0700, maxim wexler wrote:
> > picky@localhost ~ $ ls /
> > ls: cannot open directory /: Permission denied
> > picky@localhost ~ $
>
> What does 'ls -ld /' and 'ls -ld /etc' return?
>
> Both of them should look like:
> drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 May 29 04:40 /
> drwxr-xr-x 56 root root 4096 May 29 11:39 /etc

Oops! mine looks like this:

# ls -ld /   
drwxrwxrwt 22 root root 648 Apr  6 18:44 /

What's wrong here?

PS. I do not suffer from Maxim's problem, but clearly something is wrong with 
my access rights on the root directory?
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Regards,
Mick