From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from rdu74-132-037.nc.rr.com ([24.74.132.37] helo=princenet.sytes.net ident=0) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19JIjz-0004Uu-00 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 16:02:11 -0400 Received: from princenet.sytes.net (IDENT:1000@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by princenet.sytes.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h4NK2Eu2009972 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 16:02:14 -0400 Received: from localhost (lorenzo@localhost) by princenet.sytes.net (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id h4NK2EbL009969 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 16:02:14 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 16:02:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Lorenzo Prince To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Giving Ownership Of A File To A User In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: The copy of .pinerc should have the same mode as the original. To solve your problem, all you need to do is go into the other user-s directory as root and chown .pinerc Be sure the user in whos directory the file has been copied has ownership of the file with the above command, otherwise the user will continue to have this problem. Lorenzo We can use symlinks of course... syslogd would be a symlink to syslogp and ftpd and ircd would be linked to ftpp and ircp... and of course the point-to-point protocal paenguin. -- Kevin M. Bealer, commenting on the penguin Linux logo