I emailed a problem on the list yesterday, about getting to use X as a
normal user. The problem was the permissions of /dev/null, which I
changed to:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root
and everything worked. However, when I restarted today, I had the same
problem, and found that the permissions had changed back. I'm using X
now, as I've changed them again, but how do I stop them changing back when
I restart? ... Ok, I restarted again, and this time the permissions
didn't change back, so I guess that's solved (bit wierd though!).
Also, I want to be able to read-write automatically mounted dos drives as
a normal user in group 'dos' (I read this was the right way to approach
it in this list a while ago). I created the group, and added user 'rich'
to it, but I can't change the group of the directory /mnt (my dos drive),
to 'dos'.
The drive is mounted with the line:
/dev/hda1 /mnt vfat defaults 0 0
To what should I change this? I've tried changing the options column to
defaults,gid=dos
but then the drive refuses to mount (BTW how do I view the startup
messages after they've whizzed off the top of the screen?).
Sorry I crammed so many silly questions into one posting.
Thanks in advance
Rich
