From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60765 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sj=F8gren?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How to make gnus store received mail in the directory /mnt/windows? Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:40:09 +0200 Organization: koldfront - analysis & revolution, Copenhagen, Denmark Message-ID: <87pssf6o3a.fsf@koldfront.dk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124131294 2473 80.91.229.2 (15 Aug 2005 18:41:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:41:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "ding" Original-X-From: ding-owner+M9297=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Aug 15 20:41:32 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4jsx-0007eG-Aa for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:40:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1E4jsw-0000n5-01 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:40:34 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1E4jso-0000mw-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:40:26 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1E4jsb-0003Ia-LT for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:40:13 -0500 Original-Received: from 0x50a5b872.bynxx12.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk ([80.165.184.114] helo=topper.koldfront.dk) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1E4iwT-00054v-00 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:40:09 +0200 Original-Received: by topper.koldfront.dk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 850EDF000602; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:40:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "romeomedina\@libero\.it" X-Hashcash: 1:24:050815:ding@gnus.org::cenmLO0Z6oXf5Iik:0000GgdD X-Hashcash: 1:24:050815:romeomedina@libero.it::neDQhl9COK4J0X2L:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000uKC3 X-Face: &DfBw60^ZxI8hd?J%t&_8wW?SLF%BBx<2XQ+sXYpX!?{=0C?9D{Nc`;Eq<0d=-L In-Reply-To: (romeomedina@libero.it's message of "Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:25:39 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) XEmacs/21.4.17 (linux) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60765 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60765 On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:25:39 +0200, romeomedina\@libero\.it wrote: > Adam Sj=F8gren 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=3D/dev/null of=3Ddisk.img bs=3D1k count=3D1024 (I miswrote that line there - should have been /dev/zero). [...] >> $ sudo mount disk.img /mnt/floppy/ -t vfat -o loop=3D/dev/loop3,blocksiz= e=3D1024,umask=3D0 > 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=3D501(rodolfo) gid=3D501(rodolfo) groups=3D501(rodolfo) > , then in my /etc/fstab I changed the line: > /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=3D0,iocharset=3Diso8859-15,codepage=3D8= 50 0 0 > into: > /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=3D0,iocharset=3Diso8859-15,codepage=3D8= 50 0 0,uid=3D501,gid=3D501 > . 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 --=20 "Remember, Robert, in life anything can happen." Adam Sj=F8gren asjo@koldfront.dk