[Wolves] SuSE and more odd stuff...

Fri Feb 4 16:05:40 GMT 2005

 --- Kevanf1 <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote: 
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 09:43:59 +0000, Peter Cannon
> <peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 February 2005 23:36, Tim Humpherson
> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hmmm, that's interesting to note.  Perhaps our
> wise and noble Peter
> > > Cannon may be able to answer this one?
> > >
> > > Peter, could you help this poor blighter?  :-P
> > >
> > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:53:02 +0000, Kevanf1
> <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Everybody who is using SuSE 9.2  Is it
> behaving oddly?  I can't put my
> > > > finger on it but I'm not happy with the way
> some things are happening
> > > > in 9.2 as opposed to 9.1  I have already
> mentioned the  help documents
> > > > not being accesible through the normal
> channels.  Well, i'm also
> > > > finding that web downloads don't always appear
> to be there.  I can't
> > > > transfer files to my separate FAT 32 formatted
> drive and programs seem
> > > > to close unexpectedly.  None of this happened
> with 9.1 it was quite
> > > > predictable and solid.  Another thing I have
> found is that I can't log
> > > > into the desktop as root.  Yes, I know it is
> super, super unsecure to
> > > > do this.  I just find it easier to manipulate
> certain files and
> > > > permissions in this manner, again I could do
> it in 9.1  Now I'm
> > > > automatically dumped into YAST.  I am
> seriously thinking of reverting
> > > > back to 9.1
> > 
> > Firstly can I be mister picky and ask people not
> to change subject lines for a
> > thread, its very confusing and makes it difficult
> to reply this was the
> > original thread <SuSE and more odd stuff...> but
> it changed after a couple of
> > posts to <It just gets worse :-(> the topic hasn't
> changed so lets not change
> > the subject line :-)
> > 
> > You might be right <Kevan> my first reaction was
> "Well I ain't got any
> > problems" apart from sound, but then I got to
> thinking I don't have any of
> > the problems you mentioned but NFS is being weird!
> I export a folder in
> > my /home/peter along with two 13gb partitions
> mounted in the shared folder
> > all the permissions are correct. If I do some
> exchanging unmount the share
> > then a little later go back and mount the share
> only root can read & write,
> > if I look at the permissions everything is fine?
> > 
> > Do you, like others, install any of the non
> standard packages? we had a
> > discussion about this the other day.
> > 
> > There seems to be a lot of 'security policy'
> updates flying around over both
> > Suse and Fedora my money is on these, maybe they
> arn't perfected, of course
> > the problem is with Suse you don't have much
> choice unless you disable that
> > particular update but then your stuffed for later
> on.
> > 
> > There is one other possibility you (Kevan) Tim and
> I have got our copies of
> > Suse from the same source, could it be they are
> duff copy's?
> > 
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Peter Cannon.
> > peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk
> > Fedora Core 3 & Suse Pro 9.2
> > 
> > "There is every excuse for not knowing
> > there is no excuse for not asking"
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> > 
> ok, first I put my hands up, it was me that changed
> the subject. 
> However, in my defence, being as I was the
> originator of the post I
> had some other things that were different but
> related to the original
> post.  Hence the change in subject.
> 
> Anyway, to the permissions thingy.  I seem to have
> found the answer to
> my access problem with the FAT 32 formatted drive
> and also to a
> problem I had earlier.  Briefly, I posted earlier
> with a plea about
> file downloads in Firefox.  The downloads were
> directed towards the
> errant FAT32 drive.  But as I have mentioned I
> cannot save anything to
> this drive.  So, it appeared that items were being
> downloaded but when
> I tried to find them, nothing! Zilch! Nada!  No
> error message either,
> that is in itself puzzling.  So, I tried to check
> the permissions for
> the drive.  On the desktop User is kev and Owner is
> users.  That's
> right, fine now check permissions.  All are read
> write and execute. 
> That is right then.  So next step I have checked the
> etc/fstab file. 
> the entry I have for this is as follows:
> 
> /dev/hdb5            /local/Windrive      vfat      
> auto,users       
>         0 0
> 
> this is slightly different from what 'ad' mentioned
> in his previous
> answer but it should be ok.  Or am I mistaken?  It
> is mounting ok at
> /local/Windrive  However.... I have also checked
> permissions for the
> mount point itself 'Windrive'  These are set as User
> root and Owner
> root.  Actual permission being owner can read and
> write but everybody
> else can only view content.  I have attempted - by
> logging in as root,
> I sorted that one - to change the ownership of the
> mount point to
> users.  This in order to allow all users to access
> the drive which is
> what I want.  Nope.  It will let me do it there and
> then but as soon
> as I go back in and check it is all set back to what
> it was before.
> 
> Now to the last part of Peter's reply.  Did you
> install from the DVD
> as I suspect?  This is how I did mine.  Could it be
> a DVD fault?  I am
> going to try installing from the CD's onto a spare
> drive sometime over
> the weekend.  If I get the dame problem then it will
> be another
> support request.
> 
> -- 
> Take care.
> Kevan Farmer
> 
> 34 Hill Street
> Cheslyn Hay
> Staffordshire
> WS6 7HR
> 
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learn to snip when posting a single line reply.

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