changing file permissions

[Steelysteel]

When trying to change permissions on a directory as Root, I type the command:

"chmod 777 [directory_name]"

This does not change the permissions on the directory. Is there something I'm doing wrong?
What could be causing this? I thought that Root could do everything.

Thanks in advance.

[SpookyEddy]

chmod 0777 directory_name

That gives the whole world full access to that directory.

Regards

eddy

[muno]

If you aren't the owner of the directory and the permissions are 700 then you shouldn't be able to change the permissions. Unless you take ownership of the dir with 'chown'.
I recall linux being strict about those.

chmodding a dir has always worked for me, though I set the perms of dir to 711 rather than 777.
-M

[SpookyEddy]

root can change permissions on a directory with out being the owner.

Regards

eddy

[muno]

Thanks for correcting the wrong I did
-M

[SpookyEddy]

hehe... np

Just read my post & it sounded a bit rude... didn't mean to be, I am stealth posting from work

[Steelysteel]

Originally posted by SpookyEddy
root can change permissions on a directory with out being the owner.

But that's my whole problem. I am doing this as root?
I had some heat issue that caused my system to crash a number of times. When restarting the machine, I saw something about my filesystem having read-only permissions but that message is no longer there. Could this be causing my issue???

[muno]

I think I crashed my linux some long time ago, and upon boot it told me read only... I think I ran fsck and all went fine again...

Is there any error message resulted in trying to set the permissions?
-M