On Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 04:53:50AM -0800, My name wrote:
> I have Linux win 95 system with an Apache webserver for program developing.
>
> I want to have some cgi programs stored on the dos partition, which I link
> via symbolic links from the /home/httpd/html/ Reason: I do most of my ftp
> transfers while in win95.
>
> So far, it works a bit, the file is found and even the cgi starts
> executing. But, it blows up as soon as the cgi programs wants to write a
> file, because the default permissions of everything on the Dos partition
> are 755, i.e. no write permission for the web server.
>
> What determines the permissions on a Dos partition? Probably the same as
> the default permissions for files on Linux partitions? How do I change
> this, this is probably in some setup file.
>
> What about umask? But I prefer to use bash!
>
> Please answer directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I might miss the answer on the list.
>
> Thanks
> Mario Heilmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unfortunately DOS is a single-user system with a single user file-
system. You can change the uid, gid, and umask of the files on the partition
by passing those options to mount (or equivalently putting them in /etc/fstab).
Look at the section "Mount options for fat" in the mount man page.
Greg Whittier
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