Re: How to make gnus store received mail in the directory /mnt/windows?

[asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)]

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:25:39 +0200, romeomedina\@libero\.it wrote:

> Adam Sjøgren wrote:

>> Gnus tries to change the permissions.

> But why? We saw that the permissions were all right.

Of the files it creates, not of the directory!

> Adam:

>> $ dd if=/dev/null of=disk.img bs=1k count=1024

(I miswrote that line there - should have been /dev/zero).

[...]

>> $ sudo mount disk.img /mnt/floppy/ -t vfat -o loop=/dev/loop3,blocksize=1024,umask=0

> I tried to do the same, but:

WHY?

The commands I showed you just illustrates that you can work around
the lack of unixy permissions-support in vfat by setting uid and gid
in your fstab on Linux.

> Adam:

>> Try setting uid and gid in your fstab to your users uid and gid, and
>> see if that helps.

> I did:

> [rodolfo@localhost rodolfo]$ id
> uid=501(rodolfo) gid=501(rodolfo) groups=501(rodolfo)

> , then in my /etc/fstab I changed the line:

> /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0

> into:

> /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0,uid=501,gid=501

> . Is that what you meant?

Read the manual-page for fstab. (Hint: you put the options in the
wrong place). Besides that: yes.

> Please, any other hint?

Read. Some. Manuals.


  Best regards,

       Adam

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 "Remember, Robert, in life anything can happen."             Adam Sjøgren
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