Linux Permissions

Greasemonkey scripts won't update on Ubuntu

The usual reason for not being able to update the scripts is that your permissions are wrong in your Firefox folder. Your Greasemonkey scripts will be in your firefox folder. The default place for this is (please…

Ubuntu Error: The application "gnome-panel" attempted to change an aspect of your configuration that your system administrator or operating system vendor does not allow you to change

Shortly after logging into Gnome I was getting the following error:

"The application "gnome-panel" attempted to change an aspect of your configuration that your system administrator or operating system vendor does…

"Cannot find or run the base session script. Running Gnome in failsafe session instead."

After logging into my Ubuntu 9.04 machine I'm greeted with the following message "Cannot find or run the base session script. Running Gnome in failsafe session instead". The reason for this was I had messed up my…

Ubuntu Error "sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0640, should be 0440"

If for whatever reason you change the permissions on your sudoers file you will get a similar error to "sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0640, should be 0440" whenever you try to run the sudo command. The problem is that…