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

[Rodolfo Medina <romeomedina@libero.it>]

Adam Sjøgren:

> 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).



Yes, the 'mount' command run without arguments shows that on /mnt/windows
there is a vfat filesystem:

[rodolfo@localhost rodolfo]$ mount
/dev/hda8 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /mnt/floppy type supermount
(rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,
codepage=850)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/windows type vfat 
(rw,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850)



Rodolfo:

> 2) If I start emacs as root, and then open gnus from within
>    emacs, then I manage to do what I want.



Adam Sjøgren:

> 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.


The output of: 'ls -l /mnt' shows that any normal user has write 
permissions onto the /mnt/windows directory (is that right?):

[root@localhost rodolfo]# ls -l /mnt
total 48
drwxr-xr-x   2 root    root     4096 gen 22  2005 cdrom/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root    root     4096 gen 22  2005 cdrom2/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root    root     4096 ago 10 15:26 cdrom3/
drwxrwxrwx   0 root    root        0 ago 15 10:18 floppy/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root    root     4096 gen 22  2005 linux1/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root    root     4096 feb  6  2005 linux2/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root    root     4096 apr 16 19:45 linux4/
drwxr-xr-x  19 rodolfo rodolfo  4096 ago 15 00:00 linux5/
drwxrwxrwx   3 root    root     4096 ago 14 17:41 newdir/
drwxrwxrwx  30 root    root    16384 gen  1  1970 windows/


Adam Sjøgren:

> Do provide details, otherwise helping you will be tedious and
> longwinded.

I'm sorry, I'm newbie with linux, I'm doing all my best to provide
all information about the matter.


Adam Sjøgren:

> Look at the mount-options uid, gid, umask, dmask and fmask for fat
> (see 'man mount' and /etc/fstab).


That is a bit hard for me. Anyway, in /etc/fstab there's the following:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0

. The mount manual does not seem to be very helpful to me:
the uid and gid options for fat say:

       uid=value and gid=value
              Set the owner and group of all files. 
	      (Default: the uid and  gid
              of the current process.)

. Now, the output of 'ls -l /mnt' shows that /mnt/windows belongs to
the owner root and to the group root, but normal users do have the write
permissions.

Any other hint?
Thanks indeed,
Rodolfo