Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

On 7/26/20 3:15 PM, astrid morreale via Tech-talk wrote:
> *yet this directory should be readable*
>
> ls -lrt -h  /home/arch/sts
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat tomcat 43 Jul 20 16:07 /home/arch/sts -> '/run/media/amorreal/Linux ext/archiver/shm/"
>
> *Could it be because the simlink points to an external drive?*

I think it you're on the right track here.
A symlink has permissions of its own, which
may differ from the file/directory which the
link is targeting.  eg.

> $ ls -ld *dir
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 mdavidsaver mdavidsaver    7 Jul 26 19:53 aliasdir -> testdir
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 mdavidsaver mdavidsaver 4.0K Jul 26 19:52 testdir
> $ touch aliasdir/test
> touch: cannot touch 'aliasdir/test': Permission denied