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I am trying to change permissions of a folder temporarily whose initial permissions are



user@ubuntu:/var/log$ ls -l squid*

squid3:

total 4

-rw-r----- 1 proxy proxy    0 Jan 16 14:43 access.log

-rw-r----- 1 proxy proxy 1359 Jan 16 14:43 cache.log

ls: cannot open directory squid-deb-proxy: Permission denied


to some thing following 



user@ubuntu:/var/log$ sudo chmod -R 644 squid*

user@ubuntu:/var/log$ ls -l squid*

squid3:

ls: cannot access squid3/cache.log: Permission denied

ls: cannot access squid3/access.log: Permission denied

total 0

-????????? ? ? ? ?            ? access.log

-????????? ? ? ? ?            ? cache.log



squid-deb-proxy:

ls: cannot access squid-deb-proxy/store.log: Permission denied

ls: cannot access squid-deb-proxy/cache.log: Permission denied

ls: cannot access squid-deb-proxy/access.log: Permission denied

total 0

-????????? ? ? ? ?            ? access.log

-????????? ? ? ? ?            ? cache.log

-????????? ? ? ? ?            ? store.log


You will notice after the change of permissions there are question marks everywhere. Why is this happening? I basically want to read the access log to see if squid-deb-proxy server is getting requests from client or not.


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To view the permissions of a directory, you need to pass the -d flag to ls, like this:


ls -ld squid3

To read a file, its read permission needs to be set. However, to read a directory and the listing of its files, both the read and the execute permissions need to be set. If they aren't, you get weird errors like the ones you're experiencing.


To set the read permission on files and the read and execute permissions on directories recursively, use this command:


chmod -R a+rX directoryname

Here's an explanation of that command:



  • chmod is the name of the command, use for changing the permissions of files.

  • -R is the recursive flag. It means apply this command to the directory, and all of its children, and of its children's children, and so on.

  • a stands for all: apply these permissions the owner of the file, the group owner of the file, and all other users.

  • + means add the following permissions if they aren't set already.

  • r means the read permission.

  • X means the execute permission, but only on directories. Lower-case x would mean the execute permission on both files and directories.


More information is found in the manpage for the chmod command Manpage icon.


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