Re: a wrong chmod command rendered all my repositories unaccessible

Hi Ryan
thanks for the prompt reply

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2011a_at_ryandesign.com> wrote:

> The listings shown in your attachment show things that have not been
> chmod'ed 777.

the file shows the repository with the rights I have set in my attempt
to solve the problem not the "chmod 777 -R *" but also with all the rwx
rights set nothing changes.

> Not sure about Mandriva, but on Mac OS X at least, the required syntax
> is "chmod -R 777 thing"; "chmod 777 -R thing" would show the error
> message "chmod: -R: No such file or directory".

option in linux can change their position in the command line so also
"chmod 777 * -R" is correct. Probably is bound to the shell you use I'm
using tcsh but probably bash interprets them differently I don't know.

Walter

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