On Monday 24 April 2006 20:56, kghosh wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 20:34 +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > > How do I keep them that way ? I changed the permissions of /mnt/sda3 to > > > rwx for all, but after rebooting, > > > it reverts to dr-xr-xr-x. > > > > Unmount the partition and change the permissions. That should retain > > across the boots etc. > > I changed the permissions when the partition was unmounted. The > permissions were not > retained.
Hmmm.. Just checked with local cdrom and it seems this is not required. > > > > Even with this I get - > > > umount: /mnt/sda3 is not mounted (according to mtab) > > > mount: only root can do that > > > > You can ignore that, right? That is useful when one user logs off and > > another logs in without rebooting the machine > > Fine, ignored. Now, how do I mount ? I get - Only root can do that !! Well, all I can list is what I can do with my between-current-and-10.2 slack box. Anything else can only be FAT idocy that I can't remember off hand but I have had this setup working once for one of my uncles once. So it works. ----------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -al /mnt/cdrom total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2002-03-16 13:04 ./ drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 144 2002-03-16 13:04 ../ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /mnt/cdrom [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /mnt/cdrom ANNOUNCE.10_2 COPYING FAQ.TXT README.NPTL SPEAK_INSTALL.TXT kernels/ BOOTING.TXT COPYRIGHT.TXT FILELIST.TXT README.TXT Slackware-HOWTO slackware/ CHECKSUMS.md5 CRYPTO_NOTICE.TXT GPG-KEY RELEASE_NOTES UPGRADE.TXT CHECKSUMS.md5.asc ChangeLog.txt PACKAGES.TXT SPEAKUP_DOCS.TXT isolinux/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep cdrom /etc/fstab /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,users,ro 0 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -al /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2006-02-28 10:04 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hda [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -al /dev/hda brw-rw---- 1 root burning 3, 0 2002-06-10 00:57 /dev/hda [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep shridhar /etc/group burning:x:102:shridhar ----------------------------------------- HTH Shridhar ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
