[ale] setting up WP sandbox on Ubuntu...

Paul Cartwright paul_tbot at pcartwright.com
Tue Aug 29 13:07:55 EDT 2006


On Tue August 29 2006 12:49 pm, Step wrote:
> Paul,
>
> Excellent, thanks. ?That worked exactly as intended - though I had
> to give it a path still (/home/step/Desktop/locate_files.txt).

wonderful!
>
> I'm assuming that's because I don't have priviledges to write files
> in /. Permissions are something I'm going to have to learn about
> soon, probably. 

yes, that is one of the GOOD points about Linux, it won't let you write 
files all over the place, without the proper privileges..
if you were already IN /home/step/Desktop it WOULD have worked without 
the path:)

OR if you had done sudo first..

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Paul Cartwright
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