[HLUG] How to create a symbolic link?

matt stone stone.matthew at gmail.com
Fri Jul 6 10:16:31 BST 2007


On 7/5/07, Graham Cole <grahamcole at nerdshack.com> wrote:
> Thanks Matt....When I tried to change owner by using the method below a
> message said I could not do it.  could this be a problem specific to the
> link file which I'm using? Linux needs to have a GUI way of changing
> permissions.

You should be able to right click on a file in nautilus and select
properties, from there you should see a permissions tab which should
show you the owner and permissions on the file. Failing that chown and
chmod in a terminal are your friends :)

Cheers
Matt



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