Weird and Sudden permissions problem

Madison Kelly linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Fri Mar 26 22:41:24 UTC 2004


Ian Goldberg wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 05:07:00PM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>  Just now I was listening to my music in xmms (mixed ogg and mp3) and 
>>when I went to switch songs and it suddenly started scrolling like it 
>>could no longer find the files. I verified that I had xmms-mp3 installed 
>>and tried removing and re-adding the songs but it wouldn't add anything. 
>>So, I poped open a shell to take a look. Everything -seemed- okay (all 
>>files owned by my user and globally readable anyway) but alas, no help.
>>
>>  Here is what happens:
>>
>>[madison-rsR6PDGiyyg at public.gmane.org Music]$ ls -lah
>>total 12M
>>drwxr-xr-x  11 madison madison 4.0K Jan 23 11:59 .
>>drwxr-xr-x   7 madison madison 4.0K Jan 23 11:59 ..
>>drw-rw-rw-   7 madison madison 4.0K Jan 23 11:59 Acid Mix
>>drw-rw-rw-   8 madison madison 4.0K Jan 23 11:58 Ambient
> 
> 
> You need "x" permissions on your directories.  That means you're allowed
> to traverse into them.  You probably want 755 (rwxr-xr-x), or maybe
> 777 (rwxrwxrwx) if you for some reason you need other users to be able
> to add and remove files to your music directories.
> 
>    - Ian

Gah!!!!!

   I can't believe I missed that! :/

   Many thanks to both of you!

Madison

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