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- In-Reply-To: <31958C2F01570200@c2smtp.empi.com> from "Scott Stevens" at Oct 20, 95 04:45:00 pm
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- Scott Stevens wrote:
- > I have noticed a 'problem' that I experience while running Executor 1.99p
- > under my Linux OS, which is that the floppy and CD-ROM seeks on startup do
- > not occur if I run Executor under my 'scott' user account. The only times
- > when the floppy and CDROM are mounted properly is when I run Executor under
- > the 'root' account. Is this more a problem of setting file permissions
- > properly under Linux than an issue with Executor itself? Anybody have a
- > suggested fix for me? I'd prefer to not have to always run Executor under a
- > 'root' login as that could be rather dangerous to my Filesystem.
- I don't have any Mac formatted floppies or CDs lying around, but I think I
- can solve your problem. I'm willing to bet that when you login as scott you
- can't mount /dev/fd0 without su'ing to root. The reason is that only root
- can mount devices. However, there is a handy workaround. In your
- /etc/fstab file put the following lines:
-
- /dev/fd0 /mnt/a msdos user,noauto 0 0
- /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0
-
- The /mnt/a and /mnt/cdrom can be changed to wherever you normally mount
- floppies and CDs. The user option allows any user to mount the device and
- will mount it as "rwxr-xr-x" with the user set to the user that issued the
- mount command. The noauto option prevents it from mounting at boot time,
- and the ro option for the cdrom takes care of the fact that CDs are
- read-only.
-
- > On a slightly related note, when I move Macintosh files with spaces in the
- > filenames out onto Executor, or even DOS partitions that I have mounted
- > under Linux, Executor doesn't remap or replace the spaces in the filenames
- > with anything. I have workarounds under both operating systems to rename
- > the files/directories (namely 'midnight commander' under Linux and Norton
- > Utilities under DOS), but it seems like the kind of thing that could freak
- > out the typical user who wouldn't be able to do a thing at all with the
- > file/directory names with spaces in them, even delete them. Is there a
- > mechanism that I don't have turned on to prevent these writes or to remap
- > the names by filling the spaces with a 'safe' character?
- Don't know what to do about DOS, but under Linux (at least tcsh) you can
- specify files with spaces in them like this:
-
- mv This\ File\ Has\ 6\ Spaces\ In\ It This_File_Has_0_Spaces_In_It
-
- The \ followed by a space gets treated as a "non-breaking" space by the
- command line interpreter.
-
- --Toby Everett
-
-