chmod 666 ///

[Jim Cornette]

Bruce Hyatt wrote:
> --- Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In a Unix (and Linux) pathname any sequence of one or more /
>> characters
>> collapses into a single /.
>>
>> Thus /// is exactly the same as / so your chmod affects only
>> files in
>> the root directory (and not those beneath it). Which is why I
>> thought /tmp might the cause of the problem.
> 
> In that case, it seems odd to me that executing "chmod 777 ///"
> didn't allow me to startx.
> 
> Bruce
> 

The only file that I have n / is .autofsck the directories are set to 
40755 except for /tmp which is set to 40777

Jim

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