What is this?: -rw-r-r-
Ben Morris
: I'm trying to FTP Heretic and Descent and all I get in the directories is a
: bunch of stuff like -rw-r-r-. Anyone know what this crap is?
: Laterz
: *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.
: Freeman Cooley "Some profound saying should go here"
: Mesa, Arizona USA -unknown
: fre...@primenet.com
: C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That explains it all ;)
Those characters are file attributes.. rw means read/write, and i don't
know what the other two R's are for. (Ok, so I'm no UNIX know-it-all..
but if there's a "D" in the first space, it's a directory ! :)
- Ben
Nigel Morgan
fre...@primenet.com "Freeman Cooley" writes:
> I'm trying to FTP Heretic and Descent and all I get in the directories is a
> bunch of stuff like -rw-r-r-. Anyone know what this crap is?
>
> Laterz
> *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.
> Freeman Cooley "Some profound saying should go here"
> Mesa, Arizona USA -unknown
> fre...@primenet.com
> C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:\>C:
>
start of message:> Yes, in the operating system UNIX, these are the file
permissions. r means you can read the file. w means you can write to the file,
and x means you have execute permission (if the file is a program) d at the
beginning means this is a directory: l means this is a link to another directory
and s (rarely seen) means the "Sticky Bit" is set (basically this means that
once loaded in memory, this file will not be swapped to the hard drive if
memory runs low.)
There are usually 3 sets of permissions: e.g. rwxr-x--x
from l-r they are file owner permissions, group owner permissions, and
anyone else.
From the above then we see that the owner has read,write and execute permission,
the group has read & execute, and anyone else has only execute permission for
this file.
To the right of the permissions, there are usually two names: i.e. ray admin
ray is the user, and admin is the group ray belongs to.
Hope this clears things up!
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Tobin T Fricke
Unix file attributes.
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Michael Moore
FC>bunch of stuff like -rw-r-r-. Anyone know what this crap is?
Yea, Its UNIX file permissions.
The First '-' is a d for directory, l for link, hmmm, s if sticky bit?
but '-' means its a file.
The next three are the owners (r)ead,(w)rite and e(x)ecute permissions.
The next three are the group permissions and the last three are others
permissions
So, '-rw-r-r-' means the owner has read and write permisions, members in
the same group (workgroup in WFW ?) have read only and others can only
read.
On the right side of the screen, on the same line as '-rw-r-r-' should be
the file name.
ciao
MDM
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Joseph Smith
>- Ben
I'm no UNIX expert myself but the file attributes should be in 3 groups of 3.
One group being the user's previlidge, one being the group's, and the last
being the world's. (I think)
-Joe
rand...@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
jsm...@ornews.intel.com (Joseph Smith) writes:
>bmo...@IslandNet.com (Ben Morris) writes:
>
>>Freeman Cooley (fre...@primenet.com) wrote:
>>: I'm trying to FTP Heretic and Descent and all I get in the directories is a
>>: bunch of stuff like -rw-r-r-. Anyone know what this crap is?
The -rw- etc. stuff is UNIX for file/directory status. If the first
character is a "d", it's a directory and you can "cd" to it. If
all you see are columns of these -rw-r stuff, are you using an 80
column monitor ? The filenames follow toward the end of the line.
(Don't laugh. I know visually impaired folks that play games and
use DOS's MODE CO40 for typing.) Some programs strip the last 40
characters, or require an alt-shift-cokebottle to view it, in 40
char mode. More likely tho, read the whole line of the directory
brfore you panic.
Randy