[kanchilug] Re: help
- From: ashwin kesavan <ashwin.chn@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: kanchilug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:17:23 +0530
On 21 June 2011 15:14, ashwin kesavan <ashwin.chn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 21 June 2011 12:44, Robin Ladwal <robin_ladwal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Dear Praveen
>>
>>
>> 1. Please check that whether owner of /var/www has changed or not using "ls
>> -l /var |grep www"
>>
>> 2. If the owner is still root then use "sudo chown -R www-data:www-data
>> /var/www" and enter your account password to authenticate or simply run
>> command being logged in as root
>>
>> 3. Now if you wanna create a folder or file then you must add www-data to
>> your group using "sudo addgroup <username> www-data" and change group
>> permission to write using "sudo chmod g+rw /var/www"
>>
>
> Guys what the OP needs is not spoon feeding, but reading about linux
> (or any *nix) basics. If we were to spoon feed him then it goes on in
> a ever cycling phase of he coming back with next problem and finally
> decides to leave Linux. So in the best interest of praveen and the LUG
> i point him to first read the following and familiarize himself before
> posting to LUG. As anybody would expect, i think praveen has not
> googled it before asking here. So he does not show he has put some
> effort before going for help. Lazy ??
> Ok here are the link to what you should be knowing to start working on Linux,
>
> http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/LDP/sag/html/
> http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz
> http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/
>
> Note: You don't have to read the whole of the above links , but just
> skim through it and read in depth of thing which you find interesting
> and coming back to read more when you feel like.
>
Also read the most important "How to become a hacker?" by eric s raymonds.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
This is not like the other docs. Read it in its entirety from start to
end. And don't skip.
> HTH
>
>
> --ashwin
>
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