Re: yee-gads! i almost had it.

[Ken Keefe <kaje@digitalfamily.org>]

I think you want to do: 777-764 = 13

Not 100% on this though...

Ken


On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:07 -0600, bntly.rhds wrote:
>     greetings, i pulled out my reeference book and discovered the 
> heximal thing for fstab someone mentioned was 0 for full rights 
> (normally 7), and so on.  i found in the book how it was determined.  
> apparently if i want -rwxrw-r-- then i need to put 764 minus 666 which 
> gives me 098.  i don't know, but does that sound right?  umask=098 (aka 
> 764)? 
>     if so, here's another question.  i was trying to edit my fstab 
> entry, here it is fstab and then mtab normally:
> 
>     * /dev/sda1               /media/usbdisk          vfat   
>       pamconsole,exec,noauto,iocharset=utf8,noatime,sync,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,managed
>       0 0
>     * /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk vfat
>       rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,noatime,iocharset=utf8,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,user=bntly_rhds
>       0 0
> 
>     now, i have tried to change the entries from usbdisk to tyeblen, and 
> on just one entry (fstab or mtab) and on both.  upon rebooting the 
> &*@**&! has changed it back to the original configuration.  i also 
> noticed that there is a thing called LABEL=/folder.  where does that 
> point to?  if i'm asking to many questions, i'd appreciate the one being 
> answered about the fstab file, mainly on how i can keep it from changing 
> itself back to a different entry than the one i changed it to.  so here 
> goes:
> 
>     * why does fstab and mtab keep changing their contents when i have
>       modified them as root.
>     * what is a label, and how can i tell the computer that i want
>       LABEL=/portney in fstab, and perhaps it should point to mtab?
> 
>     i think that is it.  have a good day!
> 
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