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- From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller)
- Subject: Re: /etc/mtab permissions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.062236.6355@proximus.north.de>
- Sender: gemoe@proximus.north.de
- Organization: Gerhard Moeller, German NeXT User Group, Oldenburg.
- References: <C1A5Ep.6nI@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 06:22:36 GMT
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- In article <C1A5Ep.6nI@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> davisre@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Robert
- Davis) writes:
- >
- > This may have been mentioned before (I recently upgraded to
- > 3.0), but is there a workaround or fix for this: ejecting a mounted
- > floppy changes the permissions of /etc/mtab so that you can't do a df.
- >
- > % df
- > Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
- > df: /etc/mtab: Permission denied
-
- Yes, I had the same problem. And it doesn't help to change the
- permissions again. (Except you do it with a cron job. But this is ugly!)
- Especially bad is the problem if you use cnews...
-
- What I did: I simply set the suid bit of df. But setting a suid always
- worries me... Any better solutions out there?
-
- Also strange: Since I installed the MOTD.app multi-volume disk copys
- don't work anymore!! Neither in a net nor at a single user station.
-
- When will 3.1 be out?
-
- Gerhard.
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