permission related
On Wednesday 21 March 2001 22:27, Timothy J. Ford wrote: > I have a dual boot Pentium III system with Windoze 98 on hda (vfat fs) > and Debian unstable on hdb (e2fs). I mount hda with the following line > in /etc/fstab: > > /dev/hda1 /windows vfat rw,uid=0,gid=100,umask=0 > 0 0 > > My wife's email is popped from our ppp down to a file on the vfat drive > using > Netscape messenger 4.76. > In her home directory on hdb, I put a symbolic link to the directory on > hda1 where > netscape downloads the mail from the pop server. > > This works fine when I run kernel 2.2.17. > However, I made a custom 2.4.1 kernel and > I see that netscape messenger won't read the files from the mail > directory on hda. > I thought this might be a kernel problem so today I made a 2.4.2 kernel, > and still > netscape messenger won't read the files. > > Is this a netscape bug? > It works under 2.2.17 but not 2.4.2. > > Is there a reasonable way to workaround this? > > -- > Timothy J. Ford Don't worry Skipper, > 4477 N.W. Fifth Avenue everything's in my hands! > Boca Raton, FL 33431 --Gilligan
