On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 07:23, Roger Searle wrote:
> Yes, this is a good explanation. A question:
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> I figured out I can edit fstab via
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] roger]# kedit /etc/fstab
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> as I need to be root. While this works fine, is kedit the "best" editor
> or is there something simpler/better?
oh dear its holy war time again.
seasoned veterans will say "vi" because it is on every unix system as
standard, and is aged, venerable and powerful, but its a bitch to learn
for those used to the word processor/notepad paradigm. There are lots of
good howtos floating around the net.
"nano" is very easy, and is becoming common for distros to set up as a
default, cos it is easy for newbies.
personally I like midnight commander ("mc") and its built in editor (hit
"F4" over any filename, or get the editor from the command line with
"mcedit"
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> The other question I had was related to finding group and user IDs
> without resorting to the gui tool, but google has been my friend!
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] roger]# id roger
> uid=501(roger) gid=501(roger) groups=501(roger)
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> I'm getting over my command line fear ;-)
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> Robert Fisher wrote:
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> >This link takes you to a very good, IMHO, explanation of how to mount Windows
> >partitions.
> >
> >http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=29285
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> >On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:51, Roger Searle wrote:
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> >>I have umask=0. Is this the same as umask=0 0 0
> >>/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat codepage=850,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
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