Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-21 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Thursday 17 January 2008 20:17, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Patrick Shanahan wrote: ... mount | column -t Very nice. There's lots of places where I can use the column command. I can't believe I never encountered it before. Yes, but it's so new. The man pages were

Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-18 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Patrick Shanahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-17-08 15:38]: On Thursday 17 January 2008 11:02, Don Raboud wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008 16:38, Randall R Schulz wrote: (I chose df instead of the more obvious mount simply

Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-18 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 17 January 2008 20:17, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Patrick Shanahan wrote: ... mount | column -t Very nice. There's lots of places where I can use the column command. I can't believe I never encountered it before. Yes, but it's so new. The man pages were authored 1993 :^)

Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-17 Thread Stan Goodman
On Thursday 17 January 2008 01:38 Randall R Schulz wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008 14:49, Stan Goodman wrote: ... Obviously, I can't do anything with the great majority of the folders and files. But I could, if only I could do some chmod commands in the terminal. But I can't use the

Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-17 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2008-01-17 at 14:21 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote: Sees nothing? Nothing: ls returns nothing at all, dir returms 0. ... It's obvious to me that I misinterpreted the information on page man fstab, and have not mounted these two

Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-17 Thread Stan Goodman
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 14:09 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2008-01-17 at 14:21 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote: Sees nothing? Nothing: ls returns nothing at all, dir returms 0. ... It's obvious to me that I misinterpreted

Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-17 Thread Don Raboud
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 16:38, Randall R Schulz wrote: (I chose df instead of the more obvious mount simply because the output is easier to read, in my opinion.) mount | column -t make the output much easier to read. -- Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-17 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-17-08 15:38]: On Thursday 17 January 2008 11:02, Don Raboud wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008 16:38, Randall R Schulz wrote: (I chose df instead of the more obvious mount simply because the output is

Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-17 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 17 January 2008 11:02, Don Raboud wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008 16:38, Randall R Schulz wrote: (I chose df instead of the more obvious mount simply because the output is easier to read, in my opinion.) mount | column -t Very nice. There's lots of places where I can use

Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-17 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008 14:49, Stan Goodman wrote: ... Obviously, I can't do anything with the great majority of the folders and files. But I could, if only I could do some chmod commands in the terminal. But I can't use the terminal, because it sees nothing.

[opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-16 Thread Stan Goodman
There are two partitions in my OS/2 installation that I wish to have available to Linux as well; they are formatted with JFS (OS/2 implementation, of course). I had no difficulty in doing this in openSuSE v10.2, but I am having a knotty problem with it now, in v10.3. In fstab, each of these

Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

2008-01-16 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 14:49, Stan Goodman wrote: ... Obviously, I can't do anything with the great majority of the folders and files. But I could, if only I could do some chmod commands in the terminal. But I can't use the terminal, because it sees nothing. Catch-22. Sees nothing?