ultimate noob question

[avello500]

understand i have search online docs for a couple hours now.
i have pulled a folder from a cd to my desktop.(im still fumbfling thru  like a bull in a china shop).
i moved the folder to the trash . then i try to empty the trash and it tells me the content cannot deleted because i do not have permission to modify its parent folder.
if there is a link or helpfull advice its greatly apprieciated.

ok commence laughing now      

update:
i found some permission settings by right click>preferences. now i get the error message" could not open or create the file"/home/johnny/.gconf-test-locking-file";     the error was permission denied"(errno = 13)

this happens every boot right after i put in my name and password

funny huh?

[ November 28, 2002: Message edited by: avello500 ]

[voidmain]

Interesting. What distro is this? At any rate if you   open a shell and do this:

$ su -
(enter root's password)
# chown -R johnny:johnny /home/johnny
# chmod -R u+rw /home/johnny
# chmod u+rwx /home/johnny
# chmod u+rwx /home/johnny/.Trash

Should take care of it.

[avello500]

ah damn i forgot  im running red hat8.0
im going to try what you typed thanks.

[avello500]

you got me back into my machine thanks!
if you are ever in arizona usa, let me know, ill buy u a beer.
im going to hit the books again tommorrow after some sleep and turkey. maybe i can get the hang of this before i crash the net  lol.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!
         

[voidmain]

No problem. I suspect you copied some things into your home directory while you were logged in as or su'ed to the root user. When you copy files/directories they will take on the ownership of the user that is doing the copying.

Your normal user account does not have the authority to override files owned by root (unless the permissions are set wide open on said files which they wouldn't be by default). Just something to keep in mind. You might want to look over the "chown" and "chmod" commands and file permissions. There is a FAQ entry for this on the MES FAQ but I think I might do up my own in my tips area.

[ November 28, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[voidmain]

Nah, it's an American thing and only goes back a coupla hundred years obviously:

http://www.holidays.net/thanksgiving/

I'm sure you have some sort of Aussie day don't you?

[Master of Reality]

Canada's thanksgiving is better.

[ November 28, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / B0B ]

[TheQuirk]

quote:Originally posted by The Master of Reality / B0B:
Canada's thanksgiving is better.

[ November 28, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / B0B ]

What, you eat canadian bacon?

[Master of Reality]

turkey and shit. Cept we dont have to spam everyone about it being thanksgiving.

[voidmain]

I didn't see anyone spam anyone about it. But then I'm not very observant.

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by void main:
I didn't see anyone spam anyone about it. But then I'm not very observant.

well... replace "spam" with "feel the need to inform everyone of it"

[voidmain]

If you are referring to avello wishing a Happy Thanksgiving after getting his problem solved then I think you are going a little overboard. I haven't seen a thread dedicated to Thanksgiving so that can't be an issue. If you are referring to something else then maybe you have an issue. It's not like he said "Happy Microsoft Day". I don't celebrate Chanukkah because I am not Jewish, but I certainly don't mind anyone wishing me a "Happy Hanukkah". What's wrong with wishing someone else happiness?

[Master of Reality]

i guess mostly in the other forums i vists... but i believe there is a thread in the lounge about it.

[voidmain]

Not to beat a dead horse since it is officially the day after thanksgiving. But I thought it was interesting that even Linus wished everyone a Happy Thanksgiving in the 2.5.50 kernel release. And he's not even from the west side of the earth. It's rather humorous actually, which is why I am continuing with this:

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-11-28-007-26-NW-KN-DV

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[ November 29, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[choasforages]

reminds me, i need to go get a turkey sandwhich