[ale] Update On Netscape prob.

Robert L Harris nomad at rocky.orci.com
Mon Nov 24 00:06:28 EST 1997


Ok,
  That would seem to make some sense.  Do we know if it'll be out
of read-only mode any time soon?

Robert
> 
> 
> Now that I think about it, the problem is probably that the version of
> vfat you are using doesn't support writing to files yet.  I've heard of
> that as a restriction...
> 
> -Eric.
> 
> Robert L. Harris writes:
>  > Ok,
>  >   I changed my "Mail Folder" to call the specific directory which
>  > is /scsi2/apps/netscape/Users/nomad/Mail instead of the link.  I got
>  > the same problem.  Now I tried to remove a file in /scsi2/apps and got
>  > the following:
>  > 
>  > {0}:dogbert:/scsi2/apps>rm netscape.tar.gz 
>  > rm: remove `netscape.tar.gz', overriding mode 0777? y
>  > rm: netscape.tar.gz: Read-only file system
>  > {0}:dogbert:/scsi2/apps>ls -la | grep net
>  > drwxrwxrwx  13 root     root        32768 Oct 23 18:38 netscape
>  > -rwxrwxrwx   1 root     root       706680 Aug 20 21:14 netscape.tar.gz
>  > 
>  > 
>  > Yet here is my "mount"
>  > 
>  > {0}:dogbert:/scsi2/apps>mount
>  > /dev/sdc1 on / type ext2 (rw)
>  > /dev/sda1 on /scsi1 type vfat (rw,umask=000)
>  > /dev/sdb1 on /scsi2 type vfat (rw,umask=000)
>  > 
>  > Any reason it's mounting it read-only even though I'm specifying rw and
>  > a umask of 000 ?  This is a 4Gig, fat32 filesystem.
>  > 
>  > Robert
>  > 
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>  > 
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>  > 
>  > perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
> 


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Robert L. Harris          |   If NT is the answer,
System Engineer For Hire. \_    You don't understand the question

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perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'






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