[gentoo-user] Re: Must all software be installed with Ebuilds?

2005-08-17 Thread Michael Swanson
I'm setting up a home webserver on Gentoo Linux and was wondering about the above question. I've read on here many places about people writing their own ebuilds to install software. One of the pieces of software I run is Communigate Email, which is commercial software and gets installed by a

Re: [gentoo-user] how to access mounted dir with non-root?

2005-08-13 Thread Michael Swanson
Is this technique of umask=0 safe to use on an NTFS volume? I want to mount an NTFS drive on my desktop so that a regular user can access it. Is there a similar way to mount it with only read permissions, seeing as writing to NTFS drives isn't usually a particularly good idea with Linux.