[SOLVED] Accidently did chmod -x on a directory...

Hello,
I have a /usr/local/bin directory, with two scripts: 'pacmanrd', whice removes orphaned packages, and 'start-fusion', which starts Compiz Fusion (standalone). While logged in as a user, I used sudo to chmod -x the entire directory, when I meant to +x the 'start-fusion' file x.x
Now, it seems only the root user 'using sudo works' can even see files in that directory. Even using 'ls' as a normal user on that directory results in whining that it can't access the files. How can I fix this? I'm guessing remove the directory and make a new one, but if so, how do I set the permissions right?
Thanks!!
Last edited by Ranguvar (2008-10-28 02:11:50)

Okay, thanks (again)
I had just wanted to be sure, and not muck things up more.

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Last edited by vlad951 (2011-05-07 09:36:11)

vlad951 wrote:
Thanks, I successfully launched mpd as a user and it detected all of my music. However, if I launch mpd with the mpd.conf that I created in my home directory, it launches, but outputs the following:
[vladislav@vladislav .mpd]$ mpd ~/.mpd/mpd.conf
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If your music is on the same machine as your mpd i recommend to use a unix socket in addition.
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This will display every application installed on your system, and any custom .desktop entries you may create (as long as they are set in one of the categories in the menu file). Add or remove categories as you need.
If you want to have the "Run Program" and other "Action" items that are in the default Xfce menu, add a category line for "X-Xfce-Toplevel"
Alternatively, you can forego all the <Category></Category> lines and simply use <All/>
[EDIT] and since this is using garcon (Xfce's menu library), the apps will be in alphabetical order [/EDIT]
Cheers.
Last edited by Padfoot (2014-07-17 09:42:16)

TS1559 Wi-Fi settings grayed out or dim/I followed all instructions to solve it, did not work. this w-side suggest that I take my phone 2 Apple store. I did, they told me I need to replace my phone cause there was a hard ware problem/others w/same issue.

I believe Apple is making money by forsing their customer to replace the phone when so many people are stating to encounter this same problem.
If you are not covered by the warranty, they tell you that you have to replace the phone.... they put up a show showing you that they are trying to solve the problem by reseting your phone, then they tell you that you have to replace your phone due to a hard ware issue, when I asked them what part of the hard ware, they game the round around, then I insist, what part of the hard ware, they told me "some thing on the mader board" !
The sad part is that there were a few people with the same problem, some of them had had their phone replaced a few time as they still were under the period of warranty... when I mentioned to the Appple Tech. that was helping me, why those people having the same problem, and their phone being replaced a few time, would it that be a red flag, that the problem is the phone, but he told me, not. those people are having that problem, because they doing some thing wrong when they down load their back up via Icloud!.. he even mentioned that icloud make wi-fi grayed!... so, whay Apple have icloud for us to use it, when it creates issues on the phone...
SOLUTION = Replace your phone $$$,
To replace our phone due to that, to me simple issue, which is only an option for some of us to use.

What exactly is the technical support question in that jumbled statement that your fellow users in these user to user technical support forums can assist you with?
Keep in mind, these forums are not for ranting.

[Solved] a.out not recognizing the working directory

It's a little bit embarrassing because this issue doesn't seem terribly complicated, but I'm having trouble with executing the a.out file (Hello World) that gcc produces. I have to explicitly state the directory that a.out is in to run it, even though it's in the working directory. Other programs, such as Nano, recognize the working directory just fine and it is able to open files inside the working directory without having me explicitly state the full directory name.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Last edited by bananaman (2011-03-23 03:16:10)

The easiest and most secure way would be using the relative path to the executable:
./a.out
If you use a single directory for writing/testing your programs, you could add it to your user PATH. Not a major security risk, but if you do so, be careful what executables are in the dir.
~/.bashrc (or ~/.bash_profile):
[[ -d ~/cpp ]] && export PATH="$PATH:~/cpp"
Adding the current working directory to PATH is a security risk, so I wouldn't recommend it.
Last edited by sisco311 (2011-03-23 03:12:29)

[Solved] Proper/Preferred Way to Install a Directory into $pkgdir?

I'm wondering if there are any guidelines on installing directories from an unpacked RPM into my $pkgdir. From what I've seen, it's typically frowned upon to use cp/mv, but install doesn't seem to have an option to recursively copy a directory. Is my current PKGBUILD okay, or should I be using a different command in place of "cp -r"? Thanks!
My current PKGBUILD looks like this:
# Contributor: Trevor Turner <turn3r [dot] tr3v0r [at] gmail [dot] com>
_i686rpm=hpasm-7.7.0-115.sles9.i586.rpm
_x86_64rpm=hpasm-7.7.0-115.sles9.x86_64.rpm
pkgname=hpasm
pkgver=7.7.0_115
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="HP Proliant Server Management Agents and Utilities"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/supportsoftware/linux/"
license=('custom')
makedepends=('rpmextract')
source=('hpasmd' 'hpasmd.service')
md5sums=('4efbcaf99d2ad688d5887dd28d48854f' '3249472c2ca273d8c348b8daf0ffd996')
if [ "${CARCH}" = "x86_64" ]; then
source+=(ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/supportsoftware/linux/${_x86_64rpm})
md5sums+=('812416e7ee25690d55389b1df1b549bb')
noextract=("${_x86_64rpm}")
elif [ "${CARCH}" = "i686" ]; then
source+=(ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/supportsoftware/linux/${_i686rpm})
md5sums+=('420e886d6a66eb6cb3fd0671635519ec')
noextract=("${_i686rpm}")
fi
package() {
cd "$srcdir"
msg2 "Extracting RPM..."
rpmextract.sh *.rpm
msg2 "Installing Files..."
install -dm 755 "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system"
install -dm 755 "${pkgdir}/usr/sbin"
install -dm 755 "${pkgdir}/etc/rc.d"
install -Dm 755 "${srcdir}/hpasmd" "${pkgdir}/etc/rc.d/hpasmd"
install -Dm 755 "${srcdir}/hpasmd.service" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system/hpasmd.service"
install -Dm 755 "${srcdir}/sbin/bootcfg" "${pkgdir}/usr/sbin/bootcfg"
install -Dm 755 "${srcdir}/sbin/hpasmcli" "${pkgdir}/usr/sbin/hpasmcli"
install -Dm 755 "${srcdir}/sbin/hplog" "${pkgdir}/usr/sbin/hplog"
install -Dm 755 "${srcdir}/sbin/hpuid" "${pkgdir}/usr/sbin/hpuid"
cp -r "${srcdir}/opt" "${pkgdir}/"
ln -s "/opt/compaq/hpasmd/bin/hpasmd" "${pkgdir}/usr/sbin/hpasmd"
ln -s "/opt/compaq/hpasm/addon/libhpasmintrfc.so.1.0" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libhpasmintrfc.so.1.0"
ln -s "libhpasmintrfc.so.1.0" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libhpasmintrfc.so.1"
ln -s "/opt/compaq/hpasm/addon/libhpev.so.1.0" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libhpev.so.1.0"
ln -s "libhpev.so.1.0" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libhpev.so.1"
Last edited by DarkSniper (2012-07-11 00:20:01)

cp is tolerated, but make sure that you manually set permissions if necessary.
Otherwise, create your own functions and paste them in sparingly, e.g.
function install_dir()
src_dir_="${1%/}"
shift
dst_dir_="${1%/}"
shift
src_len_=${#src_dir_}
find "$src_dir_" -type f -print | while read path_
do
rel_path_="${path_:${src_len_}}"
install "$@" "$path_" "$dst_dir$rel_path_"
done
install_dir "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver/foo/lib" "$pkgdir/lib" -Dm 644

[SOLVED] gem installs packages only to home directory

Hello!
I need help. I have installed ruby and I'm trying to install it packages. But I have a problem.
All gems I try to install have placed in HOME/.gem directory. Myself home, if I install from my account, or root home, if I use sudo.
gem help install
This command shows in "Defaults" section that install dir is "/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1". But during installation it ignores this. And even option "--install-dir" have no effect. Packages was installed into HOME directory anyway.
Thank you.
Last edited by zexar (2012-05-23 13:44:48)

I tried to reinstall whole ruby package and it shows after install
The default location of gem installs is $HOME/.gem/ruby
Add the following line to your PATH if you plan to install using gem
$(ruby -rubygems -e "puts Gem.user_dir")/bin
If you want to install to the system wide location, you must either:
edit /etc/gemrc or run gem with the --no-user-install flag.
I corrected gemrc and now all working.

[SOLVED] Open new Screen windows in current directory?

GNOME Terminal has been my preferred terminal application for quite some time; lately, however, I have been using xterm and screen.
In gnome-terminal (and probably in other tabbed terminal apps), opening a new tab (by default) presents the user with a shell (BASH, in my case) opened to the old tab's PWD. If possible, I'd like to have Screen re-create this functionality....
I've found this page on the subject, but my experimentation with Screen windows (which has shown me that new windows are not started as subshells of the window from which they are created) suggests that the described method will not work.
Does anyone know of a way to make Screen emulate this bit of gnome-terminal behavior?
Thanks!
Edit:
I just found this information. It seems that issuing the screen command itself (from within Screen) will open a new window in the current directory. As I almost always use the C-a c keybinding to open new windows, I hadn't realized that this works.
I'm going to attempt to create a keybinding to do what I want. I'll post an update with the results.
Last edited by ssjlegendx (2008-08-03 01:38:29)

After looking further into the issue, it seems that the aforementioned keybinding might not be possible. (Explicitly binding C-a c to screen does not alter the normal functioning of that key combination.) Thinking about the situation, it makes sense that Screen cannot know the PWD without getting information from inside the shell (i.e., without being invoked from within the shell).
To overcome this issue, I added the following to my ~/.bashrc:
if [ $TERM == "screen" ]; then
alias s='screen'
fi
Though this leaves the behavior of C-a c unaltered, using the alias s seems to be a simple way to achieve the functionality I wanted. (It might even prove useful to have the "option" of creating a window in the original directory via C-a c.)
Edit:
I have since modified the above as follows:
if [[ $TERM =~ screen(.linux)? ]]; then
alias s='screen'
fi
This causes the alias to be set even when running screen from a regular tty (where $TERM is screen.linux).
Last edited by ssjlegendx (2009-04-22 17:41:28)

HT201210 I updated my ipad with OS6 and accidently did not activate Seri when it popped up on instalation and now I do not know o

While updating to the new OS6 i accidentally did not agree to using Seri and now on my preferences it does not appear so I can not activate it, any suggestions to restore it.

That makes sense as I was updating the OS on both my IPad 2&3 and it is only on the preferences for ipad3....I thought I punched a wrong reply key on the ipad2 . Thanks

[SOLVED] Accidently did chmod -x on a directory...

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