OK, so I'm married and my wife is not the whiz bang I am on PC matters. I am currently converting my entire cd collection to mp3's via iTunes which allows us all sorts of freedom to listen to our ...

Control who can access files, search directories, and run scripts using the Linux's chmod command. This command modifies Linux file permissions, which look complicated at first glance but are actually ...

I downloaded the latest version of RealBasic (3.2) and it is a carbon app that runs under OSX. I mounted the disc image, and in the Read Me they mention that the application should be copied to the ...

A file system provides attributes for files and directories on an operating system to help you determine which users on your computer can read, modify, or execute the contents of its files and ...

November 28, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google You are not alone. In fact, I was pretty confused by file permissions for a long time, but it’s actually very ...

I have six computers and use a Mac mini as a fileserver with sharing set up on it. About every week some of the files become read-only for some of the users. She also asks: When I open the files on ...

One way to get a little more clarity on this is to look at the permissions with the stat command. The fourth line of stat’s output displays the file permissions both in octal and string format: $ stat ...