Alexander Dalloz escribió:

Am Mi, den 01.12.2004 schrieb Mariano Draghi um 21:50:

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In http://www.python.org/2.4/rpms.html there are RPM packages for FC3, and a Yum repository provided by python.org (hey! so far FC3 is the only distro with RPMs provided by python.org itself!)

Do you really *need* the Python 2.4?

Sort of. I'm involved in a couple of projects that, given their early stage development status, may choose 2.4 as the base version to use, and rely on some 2.4 features. Some of these features may be easily ported/installed in 2.3.x (ex the new Decimal module), some others may not.

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So, it's safe to install this, or I'd be better waiting for an official update? (assuming there are plans for such an update...)

Reading the whole page it states:

"A) The RPMs that start with "python2.4" are built to not interfere with the system Python. They install as "/usr/bin/python2.4" and will not conflict with the system Python unless you are running on a system that ships the a version of Python which has the same major/minor number."

I'd try to install 2.4 as a replacement of 2.3.x. If that's impossible, or too risky, or involves lots of tweaking, I'll take the easy path (parallel install). If not, I'd like to drop 2.3.x in favour of 2.4.

So the question is how nice does Python 2.4 play as "the system Python"... and I realize that I should have been more clear in my original post. My fault.

I'm running FC5 and gnome on a machine dual booting with Windows and would like to read from/write to a Windows vfat partition. I've added this line to /etc/fstab:

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/win vfat rw,noatime,uid=500,gid=500,user 0 0

Then, also as root:

mkdir /mnt/win chmod 777 /mnt/win

In linux, I can now read from the /mnt/win directory but can't write to it without root privileges. How should I set the privileges on this directory so that I can write to it as a user? Are the mount parameters in fstab correct?

Thanks for the help! --Jerry

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 23:40 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:

Gerhard Magnus wrote:

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I'm running FC5 and gnome on a machine dual booting with Windows and would like to read from/write to a Windows vfat partition. I've added this line to /etc/fstab:

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/win vfat rw,noatime,uid=500,gid=500,user 0 0

Then, also as root:

mkdir /mnt/win chmod 777 /mnt/win

In linux, I can now read from the /mnt/win directory but can't write to it without root privileges. How should I set the privileges on this directory so that I can write to it as a user? Are the mount parameters in fstab correct?

What's your user ID and group ID? You can run the id command to check. Make sure they fit what's in the /etc/fstab above.

they were both 500

You might also like to add dmask=2,fmask=113 to the options -- they give more usable default permissions.

this made it work -- thanks

Don't try using Unix commands to change permissions on a vfat filesystem -- It Don't Work Like That.

Gerhard Magnus wrote:

I'm running FC5 and gnome on a machine dual booting with Windows and would like to read from/write to a Windows vfat partition. I've added this line to /etc/fstab:

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/win vfat rw,noatime,uid=500,gid=500,user 0 0

Then, also as root:

mkdir /mnt/win chmod 777 /mnt/win

I believe that 755 is good enough. The mount point itself does not need to be writable.

In linux, I can now read from the /mnt/win directory but can't write to it without root privileges. How should I set the privileges on this directory so that I can write to it as a user? Are the mount parameters in fstab correct?

Thanks for the help! --Jerry

Are you mounting as a normal user, or as root? I'd say you were not uid 500 or gid 500. What are your uid and gid?

Mike