RE: Another quick question

["Rory D. Hudson" <rory zumiez com>]

Thanks Jody,

I now know what the problem is and you were on the right track.  I have
been using ftp to move files over, but this moves them over as root
which changes the permissions.  Once I move them as the user I have no
difficulty with Permissions.  This is really slick, I can now save over
existing excel files.  Thanks for the help

Rory Hudson
Information Systems
Zumiez, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jody Goldberg [mailto:jgoldberg home com]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 5:02 PM
To: Rory D. Hudson
Cc: Gnumeric (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Another quick question

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 01:57:53PM -0700, Rory D. Hudson wrote:
> Ok,
>
> I appreciate the help, I can now save over existing excel files!!  The
> only other question I have is that when I go to save over an existing
> file it says that I do not have permission to write to the existing
> file.  So I have to login as root and do a chmod 777 on the file.  I
> would really like to be able to avoid doing this every time I need to
> save over a file.  Any suggestions?  Thanks again for the help and
keep
> up the good work

I'm betting you are mounting a dos partition ?  The default owner of
files on such a partition is 0,0 (root root).  Edit the file
/etc/fstab (as root) and make it look like somethin
    /dev/hda1 /win2k vfat    uid=100,gid=100,rw 0 2

Running the 'id' command as yourself will give you the desired uid,
and gid to use.

Good Luck