Linux-Misc Digest #754, Volume #20 Wed, 23 Jun 99 12:13:17 EDT
Contents:
PIKT, Problem Informant/Killer Tool, v1.5.0 released
Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be? (Lawrence D�Oliveiro)
telnet: out yes, in no (Big Fish)
Re: newbie: about tarring (Jon Skeet)
Re: ABCNews article. (Alex Lam)
Re: Local mail problem Redhat 5.2 (SMTP transaction error) (Michael McConnell)
Optimized Library for P-III ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ANNOUNCE: GNU MAVERIK 5.1 released (Toby Howard)
Re: How to pronounce SuSE? ("John Emmer")
Re: Lost disk space! (Wierd!) (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: Problem with Iomega Zip (Mats Berndtson)
Re: Permissions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: gnu.announce,alt.sources.d
Subject: PIKT, Problem Informant/Killer Tool, v1.5.0 released
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 13:16:41 GMT
PIKT, Problem Informant/Killer Tool, version 1.5.0
HIGHLIGHTS: added a new piktc option, -x, for exec'ing PIKT scripts
remotely; added another new piktc option, -f, for diff'ing the master
configuration against client-side files (has important security uses);
introduced a new flowcontrol keyword, 'leave'; increased system
robustness and fixed several bugs; added more validation self-tests
and config samples
"This is by far one of the most interesting/powerful tools I have
seen for Linux administration... an extremely interesting tool."
--Kurt Seifried, Linux Administrators Security Guide
(https://www.seifried.org/lasg)
PIKT, an innovative new paradigm for administering heterogeneous networked
workstations, is a complete, multi-functional, and centrally managed scripting
environment that comprises: an embedded scripting language; a sophisticated
script preprocessor, scheduler, and installer; and other useful tools. More
than just a systems monitor, PIKT solves many of the problems inherent in
traditional and established approaches to monitor scripting, and addresses
several other aspects of systems administration besides.
PIKT is distributed under the GNU General Public License. Available now
for Solaris, SunOS, GNU/Linux, and FreeBSD. For more info, and complete
source code, documentation, and data files (all 40,000+ lines of it), please
visit the PIKT Web site at:
http://pikt.uchicago.edu/pikt
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Grad School of Business, U of Chicago phone: 773/702-8898
1101 E. 58th Street, #309, Chicago, IL 60637, USA fax: 773/702-0233
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Kentucky - ftp.ms.uky.edu/pub/gnu
Maryland - ftp.digex.net/pub/gnu (Internet address 164.109.10.23)
Massachusetts - aeneas.mit.edu/pub/gnu
Michigan - gnu.egr.msu.edu/pub/gnu
Missouri - wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/gnu
New Mexico - ftp.cs.unm.edu/mirrors/gnu
New York - ftp.cs.columbia.edu/archives/gnu/prep
Ohio - ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu/mirror/gnu
Tennessee - ftp.skyfire.net/pub/gnu
Virginia - ftp.uu.net/archive/systems/gnu
Washington - ftp.nodomainname.net/pub/mirrors/gnu
Africa:
South Africa - ftp.sun.ac.za/gnu
The Americas:
Brazil - ftp.unicamp.br/pub/gnu
Brazil - master.softaplic.com.br/pub/gnu
Brazil - linuxlabs.lci.ufrj.br/gnu
Canada - ftp.cs.ubc.ca/mirror2/gnu
Chile - ftp.inf.utfsm.cl/pub/gnu (Internet address 146.83.198.3)
Costa Rica - sunsite.ulatina.ac.cr/GNU
Mexico - ftp.uaem.mx/pub/gnu
Australia:
Australia - archie.au/gnu (archie.oz or archie.oz.au for ACSnet)
Australia - ftp.progsoc.uts.edu.au/pub/gnu
Australia - mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gnu
Asia:
Japan - tron.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pub/GNU/prep
Japan - ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp/pub/gnu
Korea - cair-archive.kaist.ac.kr/pub/gnu (Internet address 143.248.186.3)
Saudi Arabia - ftp.isu.net.sa/pub/mirrors/prep.ai.mit.edu/
Taiwan - ftp.edu.tw/UNIX/gnu/
Taiwan - ftp.nctu.edu.tw/UNIX/gnu/
Taiwan - ftp1.sinica.edu.tw/pub3/GNU/gnu/
Thailand - ftp.nectec.or.th/pub/mirrors/gnu (Internet address - 192.150.251.32)
Europe:
Austria - ftp.univie.ac.at/packages/gnu
Austria - gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/gnusrc
Belgium - ftp.be.gnu.org/
Austria - http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/gnusrc/
Czech Republic - ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/gnu/
Denmark - ftp.denet.dk/mirror/ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu
Denmark - ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/gnu/
Finland - ftp.funet.fi/pub/gnu
France - ftp.univ-lyon1.fr/pub/gnu
France - ftp.irisa.fr/pub/gnu
Germany - ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/comp/os/unix/gnu/
Germany - ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/gnu
Germany - ftp.de.uu.net/pub/gnu
Greece - ftp.forthnet.gr/pub/gnu
Greece - ftp.ntua.gr/pub/gnu
Greece - ftp.aua.gr/pub/mirrors/GNU (Internet address 143.233.187.61)
Hungary - ftp.kfki.hu/pub/gnu
Ireland - ftp.esat.net/pub/gnu (Internet address 193.120.14.241)
Netherlands - ftp.eu.net/gnu (Internet address 192.16.202.1)
Netherlands - ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu
Netherlands - ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/gnu (Internet address 131.155.70.19)
Norway - ftp.ntnu.no/pub/gnu (Internet address 129.241.11.142)
Poland - ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/gnu
Portugal - ftp.ci.uminho.pt/pub/mirrors/gnu
Portugal - http://ciumix.ci.uminho.pt/mirrors/gnu/
Portugal - ftp.ist.utl.pt/pub/gnu
Russia - ftp.chg.ru/pub/gnu/
Slovenia - ftp.arnes.si/pub/software/gnu
Spain - ftp.etsimo.uniovi.es/pub/gnu
Sweden - ftp.isy.liu.se/pub/gnu
Sweden - ftp.stacken.kth.se
Sweden - ftp.luth.se/pub/unix/gnu
Sweden - ftp.sunet.se/pub/gnu (Internet address 130.238.127.3)
Also mirrors the Mailing List Archives.
Sweden - swamp.ios.chalmers.se/pub/gnu/
Switzerland - ftp.eunet.ch/mirrors4/gnu
Switzerland - sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/gnu (Internet address 193.5.24.1)
United Kingdom - ftp.mcc.ac.uk/pub/gnu (Internet address 130.88.203.12)
United Kingdom - unix.hensa.ac.uk/mirrors/gnu
United Kingdom - ftp.warwick.ac.uk (Internet address 137.205.192.14)
United Kingdom - SunSITE.doc.ic.ac.uk/gnu (Internet address 193.63.255.4)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lawrence D�Oliveiro)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 19:58:43 +1200
In article <7kpb0t$int$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jeffrey Flowers"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Which would you rather do: spend $99.00 for MacOS 8.6, which is really
>System 7.0 with extra libraries and a pretty face (although I do like
>Sherlock) or $69.00 for the techinically superior BeOS?
It looks like most people are choosing MacOS, purely as a value-for-money
decision. I would say that Be ceases to be a going concern in another year
or two at the most. What they're doing sounds quite amazing and all that,
but when it comes down to it it's still a solution in search of a problem.
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From: Big Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: telnet: out yes, in no
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:45:42 GMT
Hello all,
I can telnet out from my Linux machine but
cannot telnet into it (it has fixed IP):
/home/bigfish: telnet 123.456.7.8
Trying...
Connected to 123.456.7.8
Local flow control off
Connection closed by foreign host.
What's the problem, and what should I change in
my configuration?
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.general
Subject: Re: newbie: about tarring
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:28:53 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Not forgetting, of course, that
>
> tar -czvf mystuff.tar /home/mystuff
>
> will pipe it through gzip and compress it
However, if you do this it's better to use a .tgz or .tar.gz extension
than the .tar extension given above, otherwise it's not obvious to the
receiver that it was compressed.
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: Alex Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ABCNews article.
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:03:07 -0700
Rick Nelson wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if this is proper netiquette, but since this is a .misc NG,
> I figured we should start posting URLs for articles featuring Linux. We
> all know and read about it, but the "real world" people are just
> beginning to get exposed to Linux, and I think it's important that we
> know what John Q. Public knows/doesn't know.
>
> Anyway, ABCNews.com had this to say about MS vs. Linux
>
> http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/CNET/cnet_esrmsftii990621.html
>
> Rick
Thanks for posting. Interesting article.
Alex Lam.
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From: Michael McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Local mail problem Redhat 5.2 (SMTP transaction error)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 23:19:34 +0100
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Warren Bell wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having a problem with my local mail delivery. I'm using fetchmail
> to poll my pop accounts and procmail to process it. I had the same
> exact setup on 5.1 and everything worked fine. It was even working on
> 5.2 but I did a re-install and now somthing's wrong. I changed the
> machines name from localhost but I don't know if that's affecting it. I
> changed it back to localhost but it didn't fix the problem.
>
> This is from /var/log/maillog:
>
>
> Jun 20 16:01:39 linux fetchmail[1200]: 3 messages for resource at
> mail.ca.jps.net (2736 bytes).
> Jun 20 16:01:40 linux fetchmail[1200]: reading message 1 of 3 (912
> bytes) (log message incomplete)
> Jun 20 16:01:40 linux fetchmail[1200]: SMTP connect to localhost failed:
> Connection refused
> Jun 20 16:01:40 linux fetchmail[1200]: SMTP transaction error while
> fetching from mail.ca.jps.net
> Jun 20 16:01:40 linux fetchmail[1200]: Query status=10
> Jun 20 16:01:50 linux sendmail[303]: NOQUEUE: low on space (have 0,
> SMTP-DAEMON needs 101 in /var/spool/mqueue)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This looks like your problem. Check the partition which /var/spool/mqueue
lives in isn't full...
-- Michael "Soruk" McConnell [Red Hat 6.0 Available!]
Eridani Star System -- The Most Up-to-Date Red Hat Linux CDROMs Available
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.amush.cx/linux/ Fax: +44-8701-600807
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Optimized Library for P-III ?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:16:23 GMT
Is there an optimized (C or C++) library that takes advantage of the new
features of the P-III? Floating Point Vector Multiplication, Addition
would be particularly nice to have a bit faster...
/ivo welch
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From: Toby Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.announce,alt.sources.d
Subject: ANNOUNCE: GNU MAVERIK 5.1 released
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 17:16:03 +0100
=======================================================
The University of Manchester announces GNU Maverik 5.1:
a free Virtual Reality system for GNU/Linux and Windows
NT/98 PCs and Silicon Graphics workstations.
=======================================================
The Advanced Interfaces Group, in the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Manchester, UK, announces the release of GNU Maverik 5.1, a
software system for supporting Virtual Reality applications.
GNU Maverik is Free software released under the GNU General Public Licence,
and is released with full source code, documentation and example programs.
GNU Maverik is an official component of the Free Software Foundation's GNU
Project located in Boston, USA.
(A fully-linked and more detailed Web version of this announcement is at
http://aig.cs.man.ac.uk/systems/Maverik/pr.html)
================
WHAT IS MAVERIK?
================
Maverik is a system for managing graphics and interaction in Virtual
Reality applications. It is designed to address the challenges of highly
interactive virtual environments containing many objects with complex
geometry. Maverik uses either Mesa or OpenGL to perform rendering and runs
on GNU/Linux and Windows NT/98 PCs and Silicon Graphics workstations.
==================
WHAT's NEW IN 5.1?
==================
The main new feature in version 5.1 is support for Windows 98 and NT (and
probably Windows 95, although this is untested). The numerous minor
additions and modifications are listed in the change log
(http://aig.cs.man.ac.uk/systems/Maverik/VERSIONS.html)
================
DOWNLOAD MAVERIK
================
The complete Maverik distribution is available as both RPMs and gzipped
tars from http://aig.cs.man.ac.uk/systems/Maverik, and also from
ftp.gnu.org.
=======
CONTACT
=======
Dr Roger Hubbold
Department of Computer Science
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
Tel: (44) 161 275 6158
Fax: (44) 161 275 6204
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Virginia - ftp.uu.net/archive/systems/gnu
Washington - ftp.nodomainname.net/pub/mirrors/gnu
Africa:
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The Americas:
Brazil - ftp.unicamp.br/pub/gnu
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Brazil - linuxlabs.lci.ufrj.br/gnu
Canada - ftp.cs.ubc.ca/mirror2/gnu
Chile - ftp.inf.utfsm.cl/pub/gnu (Internet address 146.83.198.3)
Costa Rica - sunsite.ulatina.ac.cr/GNU
Mexico - ftp.uaem.mx/pub/gnu
Australia:
Australia - archie.au/gnu (archie.oz or archie.oz.au for ACSnet)
Australia - ftp.progsoc.uts.edu.au/pub/gnu
Australia - mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gnu
Asia:
Japan - tron.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pub/GNU/prep
Japan - ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp/pub/gnu
Korea - cair-archive.kaist.ac.kr/pub/gnu (Internet address 143.248.186.3)
Saudi Arabia - ftp.isu.net.sa/pub/mirrors/prep.ai.mit.edu/
Taiwan - ftp.edu.tw/UNIX/gnu/
Taiwan - ftp.nctu.edu.tw/UNIX/gnu/
Taiwan - ftp1.sinica.edu.tw/pub3/GNU/gnu/
Thailand - ftp.nectec.or.th/pub/mirrors/gnu (Internet address - 192.150.251.32)
Europe:
Austria - ftp.univie.ac.at/packages/gnu
Austria - gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/gnusrc
Belgium - ftp.be.gnu.org/
Austria - http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/gnusrc/
Czech Republic - ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/gnu/
Denmark - ftp.denet.dk/mirror/ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu
Denmark - ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/gnu/
Finland - ftp.funet.fi/pub/gnu
France - ftp.univ-lyon1.fr/pub/gnu
France - ftp.irisa.fr/pub/gnu
Germany - ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/comp/os/unix/gnu/
Germany - ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/gnu
Germany - ftp.de.uu.net/pub/gnu
Greece - ftp.forthnet.gr/pub/gnu
Greece - ftp.ntua.gr/pub/gnu
Greece - ftp.aua.gr/pub/mirrors/GNU (Internet address 143.233.187.61)
Hungary - ftp.kfki.hu/pub/gnu
Ireland - ftp.esat.net/pub/gnu (Internet address 193.120.14.241)
Netherlands - ftp.eu.net/gnu (Internet address 192.16.202.1)
Netherlands - ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu
Netherlands - ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/gnu (Internet address 131.155.70.19)
Norway - ftp.ntnu.no/pub/gnu (Internet address 129.241.11.142)
Poland - ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/gnu
Portugal - ftp.ci.uminho.pt/pub/mirrors/gnu
Portugal - http://ciumix.ci.uminho.pt/mirrors/gnu/
Portugal - ftp.ist.utl.pt/pub/gnu
Russia - ftp.chg.ru/pub/gnu/
Slovenia - ftp.arnes.si/pub/software/gnu
Spain - ftp.etsimo.uniovi.es/pub/gnu
Sweden - ftp.isy.liu.se/pub/gnu
Sweden - ftp.stacken.kth.se
Sweden - ftp.luth.se/pub/unix/gnu
Sweden - ftp.sunet.se/pub/gnu (Internet address 130.238.127.3)
Also mirrors the Mailing List Archives.
Sweden - swamp.ios.chalmers.se/pub/gnu/
Switzerland - ftp.eunet.ch/mirrors4/gnu
Switzerland - sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/gnu (Internet address 193.5.24.1)
United Kingdom - ftp.mcc.ac.uk/pub/gnu (Internet address 130.88.203.12)
United Kingdom - unix.hensa.ac.uk/mirrors/gnu
United Kingdom - ftp.warwick.ac.uk (Internet address 137.205.192.14)
United Kingdom - SunSITE.doc.ic.ac.uk/gnu (Internet address 193.63.255.4)
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From: "John Emmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to pronounce SuSE?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 01:00:18 -0700
Reply-To: "John Emmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In a fit of ignorance, John Emmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7kq1io$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ok, I know this is trivial, but I just did a search on Deja News and
> looked at their website, and I can't find the answer. How does one
> pronounce SuSE? Is it like 'use' or like 'uzi'?
>
Doh! Ok, so I should have looked at the FAQ instead of the 'About Us'
section of the website. Gee, John, where do you think they would keep
answers to questions that people probably ask a lot?
For those of you who may still be wondering, it's pronounced as if the
'u' had an umlaut. Or kind of like in John Phillip _Sousa_.
I will now go and write on the blackboard 500 times: "I will always
read the FAQ before asking a question. I will always read the FAQ before
asking a question"...
John Emmer VidEo GAme eNthusiast, Philosopher, Programmer/Analyst,
Sun Certified Java Programmer 1.1, BA, MA, MS, ABD
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C64, A600, A1200, P100, P166, K6-2 400; Arcade Centipede, Spy Hunter,
Neo-Geo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: Lost disk space! (Wierd!)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:00:03 GMT
Michael McConnell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Ryan T. Rhea wrote:
:
: > Has anyone seen my lost 25MB? When I run df, I get the following
: > results:
: >
: > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used
: > Available Capacity Mounted on
: > /dev/hda6 446868 421366
: > 2421 99% /
: > /dev/hda4 118965 21885
: > 90932 19% /extra
: >
: > As you can see, /dev/hda4 (my post-install need more space for gimp
: > images partition) looks fine.
: >
: >
: > /dev/hda6 doesn't look so good! The amounts of space used and available
: > don't exactly add up. I have run fsck on all partitions - no problems
: > (I even did a bad sector check). I also tried to examine the partition
: > using Partition Magic - I found nothing unusual there. Perhaps I am
: > looking in the wrong place - very likely actually :)
:
: Look for core files: find / -name core
:
: If you find any (do NOT remove /usr/src/linux/core :) just delete them.
While deleting unneeded core dump files is usually a good thing, it has
nothing to do with the apparently lost 25MB of disk space. Another reply has
already indicated that when the file system was built, 5% of the disk space
was reserved for the "root" user.
Stu
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From: Mats Berndtson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat,linux.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Problem with Iomega Zip
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 18:12:21 +0200
Glitch wrote:
>
> i have the same problem with my parallel zip and my printer. Both
> modules cannot be loaded at teh same time. For some reason they can't
> share the parallel port so if my zip is loaded i have to remmove the
> module and then load the one for the printer. Its a bit of a hassle but
> at least they both work.
>
This is a classic linux glitch! ;-)
but you see, if you use kerneld, the modules get loaded and unloaded as
needed. I have no problem using both the printer and the zipdrive, i
just have to umount the zipdrive when i need to print. The docs you
print while the zip is mounted, gets spooled onto /var/spool, so you can
print files from the zip too!
I didn't have to do anything special to have it this way, i just run
slackware out-of-the-box.
Heavy X-posting b.t.w.
/Mats
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Permissions
Date: 23 Jun 1999 08:49:21 GMT
Alexander Ehrnrooth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have difficulties setting permissions for files among other things.
> Mainly the files in f/mydocs (f:\ is a FAT partition) where I keep all
> my documents and things.
> They are accessible as root not as user.
> Setting permissions (as root of course) thru GUI or command line
> (chmod 666 or 777) doesn't change anything. What should I do?
FAT file systems don't know file permissions, and thus can't handle
them. So it's no wonder that chmod doesn't work.
When mounting a FAT partition, linux assigns all files and directories
in it the same permissions, which you can't change unless you remount
it.
I don't know to which permission it defaults, but you can override
them either by specifying `umask=...' in the options field in the
/etc/fstab or by giving mount the flag `-o umask=...'. In both
case you should substitute `...' by the appropriate permissions.
For more information about mount read the man pages.
Bye,
Carsten
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Carsten Luckmann
Department of Theoretical Physics
University of Hannover, Germany
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