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Article #1623Re: chown under 3.0
From: mckelvey
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 18:12
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 18:12
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In article <1992Sep29.005224.25329@lsa.umich.edu> Hal.Varian@umich.edu writes: > In article <1992Sep29.002311.8323@ni.umd.edu> louie@ni.umd.edu > (Louis Mamakos) writes: > > In article <1992Sep28.214104.25073@lsa.umich.edu> > Hal.Varian@umich.edu writes: > > >In article <28SEP92.15351318@enh.nist.gov> aoml@enh.nist.gov > > >writes: > > >> We just add a new hp drive purchased from TECOR, when ever > we > > >change the onwership of user's files, the whole disk's > ownership > > >randemly changed back to one > > >> of our user after few seconds. > > >> > > >> The command I use is chown -R directory-name > > >> > > >> With -R option, chown seem not only going decending > > >but also going > > >> up to the whole disk. > > >> > > >> has anybody experienced that problem ? > > >> We are using 2 NeXT stations trubo clolrs on a > small > > >network > > >> > > >> aoml,Ying-Yuang Chen > > > > > >The same thing happened to me with my Fujitsu drive. I was > > >running 3.0 beta PR2 when it happened, so I decided to wait > for > > >the official release before I tried to figure out what was > going > > >on. > > > > Yes, don't allow the workspace to auto-mount the disk. When > it does, > > the file system is mounted such the each file appears to be > owned by > > the user that's currently logged in. If you think about it, > that's > > the correct behaviour for removable media such as a floppy. > > > > The solution is configure an entry in /etc/fstab and wherever > the hell > > it goes in netinfo for that file system. > > > > louie > > Well my fstab entry says > /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 > /dev/sd1a /Users 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2 > > As far as I can tell from the documentation, this is what I'm > supposed to say. > You don't want "noauto" except for the boot disc.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!suite!usenet From: mckelvey@suite.com Subject: Re: chown under 3.0 Message-ID: <BvCqKx.FA7@suite.com> Sender: usenet@suite.com (Usenet) Reply-To: mckelvey@suite.com Organization: Suite Software, Anaheim CA. References: <1992Sep29.005224.25329@lsa.umich.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 18:12:31 GMT Lines: 57