using chmod on multiple files.
Evening.
I ame trying to change the premissions of a bunch of music files. It seems that all my mp3īs, flac aac ect have read/write premissions... I ame using mediatomb, but it whants only music files whit read premissions... (mediatomb the last section..) I have tryed to do the following: Code:
chmod -R 400 *.* Now, if i do that whit the user that must have the read rights, i get on almost evry map the following error: cannot access: bla bla; premission denied. When i do a chmod 707 or even 777, i dont have any errors... If i do it this way: sudo chmod -R 400 *.* , the normal user, cant use the files... (its also logic, as sudo "takes" the file..) What i whant, is to have a possebilety to set the premission on about 4k music files to 400, whit read and writ access to the map, anny map on the music partition, so i can expand the collection. Futher more, if possible, i also whant that all the incomming music files (the extention does not mater) stays whit the read only rights... (this is handy, but not realy nessesary...) i have locked around the net, and found the -R swithc. But what ever i do, i cant see to solve this litle problem :=) thx for any help... |
What is "the map"? You should still be able to do this as root (sudo)
and then just also "sudo chown -R your_user /media/music" ... |
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the maps are all listed in music. music a disk, full of music. So, its evrything in there.. i gona try your string, just to se what shud happen.. thx for your input.. Edit: i have tryed the next command: sudo chmod 400 -R myuser /media/music/music/ *.* The *.* is for all the files and subfiles that are in the music dir. I got the following error: chmod: cannot access `myuser': No such file or directory In the end, it changes the premissions to 400, and the user `myuser`cant get access to the dir `music. If i look at a mp3 in one of the dir, it has the following rights: -rwx---r-x I forgot to mention that it is a Ubuntu 8.10 system.. ofcourse, if i go to the subdir, and do a chmod 400 *.*, it changes the files to the correct user, and i have still acces... but to do that in over 400 dirs...... edit: i think that i have found the right chmod command.. I have done the following: chmod -R a-x+X /media/music/music/ this sets all the files and subfiles to read only. Then i have changed the premissions to rxw for mediatomb.db. Maby not smart or nessecary, but it seems that it is reading all the files, whitout problems. I dont have found anny error, regardless the extention (mp3, wav, flac ect). I can only try it out when it is done reading the files. so, i will keep you updated. thx for the input. |
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