Hi Pascal, I suppose you thought you were rid of me for a while...anyway you're right in that the drive is a vfat drive. I've edited /etc/fstab unmounted and remounted it and all the permissions are noe under my control. Best regards, Patrick Kirk Enterprise Human Resources Tel: 0044 118 939 1122 Fax: 0044 118 939 3388 Executive Opportunities at www.enterprise-hr.com E-mail pkirk@enterprise-hr.com -----Original Message----- From: Pascal Bleser [SMTP:pbleser@prov-liege.be] Sent: Monday, 16 March 1998 8:19 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] chmod syntax Is your "/dbserver" directory a ext2-fs directory (native Linux filesystem, like a ... "normal" directory you made with "mkdir"), or is it a _mounted_ directory (a FAT) ? In the latter case, you should mount it read-write !! -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Kirk <pkirk@enterprise-hr.com> To: 'suse-linux-e@suse.com' <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Cc: 'linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu' <linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu> Date: Friday, March 13, 1998 3:45 PM Subject: [S.u.S.E. Linux] chmod syntax

I am planning to set up Linux as a database server this weekend and have just completed installing SuSe 5.1. All is working (after considerable help from this mailing group) except I have no way of writing to the SMB shares.

The key directory is called dbserver. Its permissions are -dwrx-rx-x-. in smb.conf its permissions are set by change mode = 0775. Users can see the database, read data but not update it.

I have tried chmod +rwx dbserver, chmod a+rwx /dbserver, etc but cannot make it rw x for all users which is what I need?

Man chmod says it may be out of date and refers to texinfo. Man texinfo doesn't exist.

What am I doing wrong?

Best regards,

Patrick Kirk Enterprise Human Resources Tel: 0044 118 939 1122 Fax: 0044 118 939 3388 Executive Opportunities at www.enterprise-hr.com E-mail pkirk@enterprise-hr.com

-----Original Message----- From: Paul groves [SMTP:paul.groves@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, 13 March 1998 12:30 To: Michael Lankton Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Very new...

On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Michael Lankton wrote:

...

Until NT5 and directX 6, Windows95/98 are the only platform(s) for those of us who like games. NT4 just isn't game/hardware friendly. Hopefully other developers will follow id software's lead and offer linux bins for their games in the future, but until then I'm keeping a partition for windows.

I don't suppose anyone knows if Civilisation II runs on NT 4.0? If so I'd quite happily dump Windows 95! (apart from games, I also need a Windows OS for Photoshop 4...)

Hope to install S.u.S.E. Linux 5.1 this w\e (In the past I've played around with RedHat), does the following sound like a sensible partition set-up (for a single user dialup\graphics workstaion)*?:

* see bottom for equipment stats

On the (slowish) 512Mb drive:

/ 100Mb /home 100Mb /usr/local - the rest (for non-rpm s/w etc.)

On the (faster) 3.2Mb Drive

/win95 or /winnt - 1Gb (FAT32 if win95, NTFS if Winnt)

/data 1Gb (FAT - so I can share data, including large TIFF files, between the two OS)

/swap 64Mb (I do a fair bit of graphics stuff with quite large TIFF files)

/usr The rest!

BTW: Equipment stats: 200Mhz MMX CPU, 32Mb SDRAM, 4MB Matrox Millenium II graphics card, 3.2GB Quanum Fireball H\D and also an old Western Digital 512Mb HD.

Paul

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