[ale] Permission hell question

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 13:34, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
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> On Friday 25 June 2004 07:19 am, Geoffrey wrote:
> | What does the entry in /etc/fstab for the zip look like?  Are you 
> | mounting it manually or permitting some automounter system to do so? 
> | When it's mounted, what does 'mount' return?
> 
> 
> fstab entry:
>   /dev/hdd4    /mnt/zip      auto  noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> 
> more interesting data: upon running the command "mount /mnt/zip"
> I get this:
> 
> [root at localhost kilpatms]# mount /mnt/zip
> [root at localhost kilpatms]# ls -l /mnt/zip
> total 78
> - -r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root        69632 Mar 10  2002 ea data. sf
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 Apr  9  2002 found.000
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 Mar 11  2002 graphics
> drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         2048 Jun 21 18:27 Scripts
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 Jun 21 18:22 sounds
> - -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          312 Mar 11  2002 wp root. sf
> 
> 
> Note that the directories on the zip platter do NOT have 
> write perms.

It's a vfat filesystem. Those perms don't translate to anything useful
under Linux.
> 
> when the zip platter is mounted via the "mount /mnt/zip" command
> listed above, the "mount" command returns this line (among others):
> 
> /dev/hdd4 on /mnt/zip type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev)
> 
> BUT,
> after sending the command "umount /mnt/zip" I clicked on the
> desktop icon, which automounted the platter and opened a Konky
> window with the directory structure properly displayed.  With
> that window still open on the screen the "mount" command does
> NOT indicate that the zip platter is mounted!
> 
> I remain clueless in Atlanta.
> 
> Well mostly clueless.  fstab refers to /mnt/zip.  The automount
> icon on the desktop is opening /misc/zip.
> the applicable line in /etc/auto.misc looks like this:
> zip  -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,gid=users,uid=nobody,umask=7 :/dev/hdd4
> 
> Now, while the file window is open on the desktop for the
> zip platter as /misc/zip and I can read files thereon,
> the command line tells me that there are no files/directories
> in the /misc directory! ie, /misc/zip does not exist. 
> But it does. It's open on the desktop!
> 
> 
> Sean
> 
> sometimes Linux/unix is not as straightforward as the
> ads claim. <grin>
> 
> 
No Kidding!! (Which "r" means recursive, "R" or "r"?)

Try messing with the zip drive using the mtools set of commands. 

mdir z:  should show the contents of the disk, etc.

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