From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60757 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 11:36:25 +0200 Organization: koldfront - analysis & revolution, Copenhagen, Denmark Message-ID: <87u0hr8rty.fsf@koldfront.dk> References: <20050815031142.7258C4022@rocksteady.printf.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124098816 8893 80.91.229.2 (15 Aug 2005 09:40:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:40:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M9289=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Aug 15 11:40:14 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4bQj-0005XY-8p for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:38:53 +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 1E4bQi-0007Tv-01 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 04:38:52 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1E4bQd-0007Tn-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 04:38:47 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1E4bQb-0004YU-4Q for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 04:38:45 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1E4aUV-0007Eu-00 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:38:43 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1E4bPQ-0005K8-Jk for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:37:32 +0200 Original-Received: from 0x50a5b872.bynxx12.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk ([80.165.184.114]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:37:32 +0200 Original-Received: from asjo by 0x50a5b872.bynxx12.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:37:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 0x50a5b872.bynxx12.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk X-Face: &DfBw60^ZxI8hd?J%t&_8wW?SLF%BBx<2XQ+sXYpX!?{=0C?9D{Nc`;Eq<0d=-L User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) XEmacs/21.4.17 (linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:R2FiSMC9khompgvcUGirNw37kgI= X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60757 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60757 On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:00:29 +0000 (UTC), Rodolfo wrote: > The MS Windows partition is under the /mnt/windows directory. You haven't disclosed what filesystem you are using on /mnt/windows yet. > 1) I regularly write files and directories from linux into /mnt/windows, > without problems. Why does the problem with the NTFS file system > only arise when I want gnus to do what I usually do? If you do this - write new files - you are probably using a vfat-filesystem and not ntfs? You can check this with the 'mount' command (just run it without any arguments). > 2) If I start emacs as root, and then open gnus from within > emacs, then I manage to do what I want. That sounds like you've got a problem with permissions. You should double-check that the normal user has permissions to do what is needed on /mnt/windows. Do provide details, otherwise helping you will be tedious and longwinded. > Finally, do you think a solution is possible, and give some hint > about how to achieve it? Look at the mount-options uid, gid, umask, dmask and fmask for fat (see 'man mount' and /etc/fstab). Best regards, -- "parsley, sage, rosemary and KOMPRESSOR" Adam Sjøgren asjo@koldfront.dk