[Wolves] Suse

[Adam Sweet]

 --- Peter Cannon <peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote: > Morning Adam
> 
> Thanks for the reply, yes I am back less a couple of
> pounds of body
> tissue now lying on the operating room floor being
> prodded with a stick
> by a terrified student nurse!

Insert here any joke pertaining to leaving bodily
deposits with student nurses, as it's all good :)

<snip>
All the symlinks stuff looks reasonable to me as thats
pretty much what I would do, in fact I was doing the
java plugin only the other day, though the symlink
worked it stopped Moz starting for some reason so I
removed it for the time being. In this case foloow
David's instructions are they are far more detailed
than anything I would say.

> There is a file icon which has a large orange
> question mark in the
> middle with a little padlock on the left hand side
> and a black sym link
> arrow if I open the file it has nothing in it.

The padlock thing implies that the file is only
readable by root, which is why it isn't there as root,
I can only assume thats the reason for the question
mark too, as if you can't read a file, you can't
determine it's nature. This may be part of your
symlink problem too. I'm pretty crap at permissions,
but as a normal user do ls -l in the directory to view
the permissions and see if others have any rights at
all.

Permissions follow the following structure.

s rwx rwx rwx

where s is the special attribute for stuff like suid,
gid, symlink, directory etc and each rwx triplet
stands for read write and execute. The first 3 for
owner, the 2nd for members of the same group and the
third for others. Any of the above that have a -
symbol means that permission is not available ie:
lrwxr----- means it's a symlink and root has all
permissions, members of the root group have read
permissions and others have not permissions. If the
file is owned by root then normal users permissions
will be for 'others'.

You probably know this but I thought I'd drop it in in
case you didn't and for any total beginners
listening.]

Anyway, don't listen to me, listen to David :)

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