Internet not working (Permission Denied?)

amnesty_puppy · 10-19-2004, 01:23 PM

Slack10 + XFCE, ResierFS

I was messing around with a remaster of Knoppix, spefically chrooting and mounting proc, before it stopped working. The morning after I booted up and the internet wasn't working, thinking that resolv.conf may have got messed up in the chrooting I had a look around and performing ls on /etc gives this errors:

ls: *: Permission denied

where * is mutt, dhcpc, nail.rc, dhcp.conf, yp.conf.sv, ntp.conf.sv, inetd.conf, lftp.conf
(don't know how to copy from aterm)

And this is by root.

I think this may be the problem.

Thanks, Dominic.

n3tw0rk · 10-19-2004, 01:27 PM

Looks like your permissions got changed somehow. While root type
chmod 755 /etc
and then ls again. It should work now.

amnesty_puppy · 10-19-2004, 01:34 PM

I tried that but root doesn't have permission, doing what you said doesn't bring up any errors but when I go into etc the errors are still there and chmodding the files directly gives:

chmod: failed to get attributes of 'file': Permission denied

student04 · 10-19-2004, 02:02 PM

Code:

root# chown root:root /etc/
root# chmod 755 /etc/
root# ls /etc/

Even though root should be able to change permissions without changing the ownership, just give this a try. What n3tw0rk said should have worked regardless.

amnesty_puppy · 10-19-2004, 02:09 PM

nup, chown gives same as chmod

RJARRRPCGP · 10-19-2004, 03:17 PM

Well, all I can say is, the Linux settings probably got corrupted. The only solution to that is reinstall Linux

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amnesty_puppy · 10-20-2004, 04:04 AM

shiton, thanks for the help, I was thinking of changing to debian for a trial anway.

Dom.