On 21/09/2007, Rich Rauenzahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not familiar with MACs -- but -- shouldn't the mountpoint have > permissions such that only the OS can add directories?
That's not exactly how things work on Macs. They have a /tmp-like directory /Volumes in which mount points can be created. When a drive is connected, the automounter would create a mount point that is unique to the current user, then mounts the volume. So it really is meaningless to talk about permissions of the mount points because they do not exist until the automounter (or something else, in this case BackupPC) creates them. So if something creates a directory that has the same name as a mount point, the automounter will mistakenly think that it (the automounter) has created that directory for another user, and will happily create another mount point (with a slightly different name) for the volume. This guarantees that the directory created by BackupPC will never be the actual mount point used by the automounter. -- cheers, -ambrose Yahoo and Gmail must die. Yes, I use them, but they still must die. PS: Don't trust everything you read in Wikipedia. (Very Important) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
