On 1 Feb 98 at 11:18, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Art Lemasters wrote: > > Now, for the reason this is coming from my M$ OS. > > I mounted a second, older hard drive to use as /home. > > Although I set permissions for the one user (me) with > > chown and chmod, I still do not have access to the > > device (/dev/hdc1 mounted in /home). Do any of you > > have any ideas as to the cause or a solution? I am a > > newbie, using the stable (bo) distribution. > > Well, what does the 'mount' command say? How do the permissions look? Can > you execute these commands (once with /home mounted and again with /home > unmounted) and mail the output? > > mount > ls -la /home
mount /dev/hdc1 /home drw-rwx--- 4 username root 1024 Jan 31 12:15 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1024 Nov 27 20:05 .. drw-rwx--- 13 username root 1024 Jan 31 12:16 username drw-rwx--- 2 username root 12288 Jan 31 10.16 lost + found I tried to send this upon receiving your generous reply, but the listserv did not return the usual confirmation after it was sent. Apparently, it can not accept mail from my root, even though I dial in through a dynamic IP. Hmmmm... That might be called a good feature! Thanks for helping, Remco. _Art -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .