[ale] Permission hell question

[Geoffrey]

Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
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> On Thursday 24 June 2004 07:46 pm, Robert Heaven wrote:
> | There's also the possibility that the zip drive is being mounted as
> | "read only".
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> This got me close to what may be the underlying problem
> Thanks.
> 
> Upon looking further, I discovered that the zip drive itself
> (hdd4) had these perms:
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> brw-------    1 kilpatms disk      22,  68 Jan 30  2003 hdd4
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> I have changed that to read brwxrwxrwx (777)
> 
> But that has not solved the underlying problem of changing
> the perms on the files on the zip platter. when I try to
> run the command
>    chmod 777 /misc/zip/Scripts/wake/*
> the OS tries to chmod each file and reports back "operation not
> permitted" for each one.
> The actual error mesage is this:
> chmod: changing permissions of `wake1.sxw' (requested: 0777, actual: 0770): 
> Operation not permitted
> 
> And, yes, I am running the chmod command as root.
> 
> I remain clueless in Atlanta.

It most definitely sounds like the drive is being mounted as read only.

What does 'mount' return?

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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