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Everything Else => Sharp Zaurus => Model Specific Forums => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => C1000/3x00 General discussions => Topic started by: tombraider on December 15, 2005, 02:28:49 pm
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On my SL5500's I believe I typed something in at the terminal in order to grant myself permissions for all folders at once. Is this possible?
I need to change permissions to copy over a different addressbook.so and am having difficulty. the path to the file seems to be /usr/QtPalmtop.rom/binlib/addressbook.so
Could someone help me with the commands?
Thanks in advance.
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The command "su" will turn you into root and then you can move any file you want.
Felipe
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I've tried that and su gains me nothing. I can't "see" the files in terminal that I want to get to and change permissions on. It seems like I changed something on my SL5500 so that I could "see" all files and had full permission on all files, but the C1000 denies me access to just about everything...even when I used AdvancedFM with root privileges.
Anyway, when I do ls in terminal I only see Applications Documents Settings so I can't move to anything that I wish to change.
The command "su" will turn you into root and then you can move any file you want.
Felipe
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su changes you to root but doesn't put you in the root directory. To see the files you want do "ls /usr/QtPalmtop" (and so on).
Felipe
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Okay, I feel pretty stupid because I had forgotten that, however I get all the way to where the addressbook.so is located and if I try to remove it with rm (so I can later copy my new file there via AdvancedFM) or try to copy the new file over it, I get the error message, "addressbook.so: Read-only file system."
What do I do now?
How about if I just install the Sharp addressbook from the feed...will that just create a bigger problem?
Thanks for bearing with me on this... I know I'm pretty dense. :-)
su changes you to root but doesn't put you in the root directory. To see the files you want do "ls /usr/QtPalmtop" (and so on).
Felipe
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Just to provide some support, but this topic is very useful to me too. I encounter this problem all the time and lack the Linux knowledge to deal with it.
In fact if anyone can direct me to a link for command line instructions I am happy to learn them. My only terminal experience has been with MSDOS.
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I've never dealt with this problem before. I know you have to unmount the read-only file system and then remount it readable but I don't have the commands off the top of my head and you don't want to screw up doing that. Do a search on the forums for "mount -r" or something like that. I was about to suggest that you google for "man mount" but then I realized that it's a really bad idea :-)
As for rebski's post, there was a thread recently on what newbies should know that had some links to linux tutorials.
Felipe
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On my SL5500's I believe I typed something in at the terminal in order to grant myself permissions for all folders at once. Is this possible?
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Could someone help me with the commands?
Be very careful with this:
su
mount / -o rw,remountMake your changes then do:
mount / -o ro,remountto make it read-only like it was
Please note: Make sure you have enough room to add any changes!
Greg
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i have a solution so don't dispare.
ill wait to see if greg2 post works for you. then if it doesnt, ill get to you. Ive done the addressbook plenty of times.