RE: permissions and vfat

2002-05-01 Thread Wheeler.Mark
I would like to set the date/time display to local time not UTC (i.e. date Wed May 1 09:56:41 UTC 2002). How do I do that? I have looked at the config files, /sysconfig/clock, timezone and have tried hwclock. thanks ___ Redhat-list mailing lis

Re: permissions and vfat

2002-04-30 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 16:47 13 Apr 2002, Caleb Chaplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | IIRC the files on a vfat filesystem are owned by the user | > who mounted the filesystem. | | Ok then, so having an entry in /etc/fstab for the relevant partition with an | entry like "gid=503" (for example) would have zero effect

Re: permissions and vfat

2002-04-30 Thread gregory mott
check mount(8), i believe you will find a way to specify what user owns all the vfat partition files at mount time. the ownership and permissions you expect are not available inside vfat.. "Caleb Chaplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Please excuse me if this has been asked plen

RE: permissions and vfat

2002-04-30 Thread Chad and Doria Skinner
I would think fstab would have presidence, but I really don't know > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Caleb Chaplin > Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 3:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: permissions and

Re: permissions and vfat

2002-04-30 Thread Caleb Chaplin
IIRC the files on a vfat filesystem are owned by the user > who mounted the filesystem. > Ok then, so having an entry in /etc/fstab for the relevant partition with an entry like "gid=503" (for example) would have zero effect? I suppose I could get around that by creating a partition for the u

Re: permissions and vfat

2002-04-30 Thread Cameron Simpson
I wrote: | The problem is that VFAT doesn't have any concept of ownership or | permissions. Therefore you get to make some of to apply to the whole | partition, what take effect at mount time. So you can have the whole | patition owned by whoever you like, with whatever permissions, but you | can

RE: permissions and vfat

2002-04-30 Thread Chad and Doria Skinner
I don't believe what you are trying to do is possible as you are correct that vfat does not support file permissions in the same manner as native linux partitions. IIRC the files on a vfat filesystem are owned by the user who mounted the filesystem. Chad > Hi everyone, > > Please excuse me if th

Re: permissions and vfat

2002-04-30 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 16:15 13 Apr 2002, Caleb Chaplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Please excuse me if this has been asked plenty times before, but I'm having | trouble establishing read/write/exec permissions of a directory on a vfat | partition and nothing I try seems to work. Namely, variations on chown and

permissions and vfat

2002-04-30 Thread Caleb Chaplin
Hi everyone, Please excuse me if this has been asked plenty times before, but I'm having trouble establishing read/write/exec permissions of a directory on a vfat partition and nothing I try seems to work. Namely, variations on chown and chmod never seem to work on any folders there and root