I have two Debian systems [1] at the house for my kids. I am trying to
make them as Windows like as possible for my kids. For my actual Windows
machines, they do domain logins and have roaming profiles with network
directories and storage from a third linux machine running Samba. That
works
Alvin Murphy wrote:
(quoting the following comment:)
So the following command will mount it to the above location: mount
-t vfat /dev/sda mnt/usb.
For the sake of fool-proof-ness, the above command is, of course, not
always correct (unless you happen to be in the root directory). The
Hello everyone, Im back from deployment. I do have a question to pose to those
more familiar to Mandrake than I am, Im more Red Hat and Gentoo oriented.
If anyone can tell my where mandrake 9.1 hides its grub config file Id be most appreciative. Ive tried the standard /boot/grub
and /etc
* Brandon Jasper [EMAIL PROTECTED] [29/09/2003 2028EDT]:
Hello everyone, I'm back from deployment. I do have a question to
pose to those more familiar to Mandrake than I am, I'm more Red Hat
and Gentoo oriented. If anyone can tell my where mandrake 9.1 hides
its grub config file I'd be most
No luck there, lots of grub, no config file :P
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* Brandon Jasper [EMAIL PROTECTED] [29/09/2003 2028EDT]:
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 02:47:26PM -1000, Brandon Jasper wrote:
No luck there, lots of grub, no config file :P
Without having a running copy of MDK anywhere, I would suggest
running `rpm -ql grub` to se if a config file is even packaged.
There is no spoon, I mean grub.conf.
-Vince
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:28:53 -1000
Brandon Jasper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If anyone can tell my where mandrake 9.1 hides its
grub config file I'd be most appreciative.
The config file menu.lst should be in /boot/grub. It could be you don't have
one; you can create with a text editor. Here's
Add a slash and remove the period:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usb
Your script is broken (missing the mount command) and doesn't umount when
the stick is removed (like, say, hotplug would).
;-)
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Add a slash and remove the period:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usb
Your script is broken (missing the mount command) and doesn't umount when
the stick is removed (like, say, hotplug would).
;-)
I have posted a correction, but for some reason, it does not come
Oops, should have been:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usb
Another trick that can make your life much easier after USB 2 became
available--which indeed makes Linux potentially a much much more
powerful desktop platform than Microsoft Windows, is that you can
temporarily replace the home directory on the host machine with your
own home directory.
I
Hi all,
I want a student's teacher to have rw access to that student's /home.
I change the student's /home to 6770.
The teacher can see the student's /home and can rw.
However, when the student saves an OO file to /home it gets saved as 600.
Isn't it supposed to get saved as 770?
As I'm new to
If you aren't using Samba then the default file permission are taken from
umask (env variable) subtracted from 777.
you can set umask in /etc/bashrc and it might be set somewhere on the
system also (~/bashrc)
look for umask=177 which would be the culprit (022 is default on redhat).
adios
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 04:30:56PM -1000, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
If your /home directory is not installed in a separate
partition, but as part of the root partition, then this becomes
a two-step process:
mount -t ext3 /dev/sda2 /mnt
mount --bind /mnt/home /home
It can still be a
I'm looking to purchase a thumb drive at least 256MB or perhaps 512MB. I
want something rugged and that will last because I'll probably use it
everyday. I have seen a few of them fall apart, like the case cracks or
totally falls off.
I've also considered getting a laptop HD and mounting it into
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 04:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
If you aren't using Samba then the default file permission are taken
from
umask (env variable) subtracted from 777.
you can set umask in /etc/bashrc and it might be set somewhere on the
system also (~/bashrc)
look for
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 09:14:49PM -1000, Nakashima wrote:
I'm very green so you'll have to speak slowly. We are using Samba to
talk to our Windoze machines. How does this relate to umask?
Not much.
So umask controls the permissions assigned to new files as they
are create right? How do I
Who wants to learn Linux? I am asking for more people to sign up for
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This is a list of Linux Computer Classes that are coming up with the
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You must have an
If the user is creating files over a samba share you can change the
default permissions by changing the options on smb.conf (or SWAT) for that
share.
Here is the man page for umask:
umask [-p] [-S] [mode]
The user file-creation mask is set to mode. If mode begins
with
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