On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:03:41PM +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: > Hello sluggers, I've moved an Apache intranet I run on my home office > from an ext3 to a vfat partition. I did this by copying the DocumentRoot > using nautilus and changing the conf files. Apache now returns "You > don't have permission to access /bookmarks.htm on this server" to the > browser.
Perhaps you could explain why you would want to do this? > I don't have this problem if I copy the webserver directory to another > ext3 partition - seemingly proving that I'm changing the necessary conf > info. > So - is there something different about ext and vfat security, > necessitating some more sophisticated directory copy process ? As other posters have indicated, vfat does not store uid/gid/permission data about file and directories. Thanks, Anand -- linux.conf.au 2005 - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ - Birthplace of Tux April 18th to 23rd - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ - LINUX Canberra, Australia - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ - Get bitten!
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