Re: netscape, vfat, kernel 2.4.x
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
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