Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> Mike....never mind, you just don't seem to get it. I consider
> this subject closed.
Maybe for you, but if others wish to provide more educational information, then
believe me when I tell you, I'll be glad to read it. You can just skip the thread.
Never prevent others from learning topics that are useful and are relevant to newbies
to Linux. Some don't want to read it and some do; therefore, those who don't can
just skip, while letting those who wish to learn more, gain the knowledge others are
willing to share.
This rule of thumb should be so simple and straightforward that no one should ever
feel any need to comment about whether a thread should closed, because you're not the
God over what others care to share and learn, especially when it's related to the
mailing list. If it was a topic unrelated to the mailing list, or more suitable for
the other mailing list(s), then I wouldn't disagree, but the topic is related to this
mailing list, and a couple of others have shown their support, one by also saying
that he/she likes to learn and the other providing more knowledge.
If you can explain what's wrong with that, then I'm prepared to read your pov.
mike
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> Alan
>
> Mike Corbeil wrote:
> >
> > Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> >
> > > Mike....correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you the guy who's
> > > been telling some folks in this list that their questions aren't
> > > appropriate for this forum and to go ask them in the expert
> > > list? Well I think that your response in this thread (quoted
> > > below) was not appropriate for the newbie list. The remedy here
> > > was very simple and your four rambling paragraphs have simply
> > > served to confuse the issue.
> > >
> >
> > Not really, but then maybe I've been accustomed to less than trivial for longer
> [snip]
> [snip]
> > argumentation or discourse.
> >
> > mike
> >
> > > Alan
> > >
> > > Mike Corbeil wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Bob....you also need to include umask=0 on that line in
> > > > > /etc/fstab.
> > > >
> > > > Must be a fairly new requirement, or there's a difference in the default
> > > > umask value between RH 5.1 and Mandrake, because I don't need umask=0 to be
> > > > able to write to my dos partitions. I merely set it to noauto,rw and this
> > > > is adequate.
> > > >
> > > > The only reason you'ld need to included umask=0 is because of the
> > > > system-wide default value for it, probably defined in /etc/profile or
> > > > /etc/bashrc. This may also depend on whether you're allowing only root to
> > > > write or make changes to the dos partitions, or also allowing users. I
> > > > don't give users access to my dos partitions, albeit it's a standalone
> > > > system and I'm the only user anyway.
> > > >
> > > > I read somewhere, recently, that umask should be set to 0 in the system-wide
> > > > login scripts, but that's the opinion of one author of documentation. If,
> > > > however, you're going to set umask to 0 for the dos partition(s), then you
> > > > might want to simply set the system-wide value to this anyway, which means
> > > > you wouldn't need to include this in fstab.
> > > >
> > > > You'ld need to do some research through various documents which touch upon
> > > > this subject, before taking my word as gospel.
> > > >
> > > > mike
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Alan
> > > > >
> > > > > Cox Family wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > another stumper for me?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I just wanted to make a new directory on the DOS partition that I could
> > > > > > put some WP8 files in (because the apostrophe comes out on the printer
> > > > > > as something stupid in Linux right now) and it said I didn't have
> > > > > > permission. I checked the "fstab" and hda1 includes "user" in
> > > > > > permissions. I checked properties by right-clicking on the icon and it
> > > > > > includes user, group and others for both read and write.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > OK, so I made the directory as super-user, gave it "a+rwx" permissions,
> > > > > > and still couldn't save a file in it. Access denied. No permission to
> > > > > > write or what ever....
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Again, what am I missing here?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Bob
