On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:28:45 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On 22 December 2011 17:09, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:26:04 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >>> I have an external usb hard drive that I use solely for storing >>> backups which are done every three hours of my home folder. It is >>> 'owned' by root, but I want to have the user boztu to have ownership >>> of it so that boztu can write to it from their cron backup program, >>> but how do I do it please? >>> >>> At the moment root writes to it at midnight and creates a new dated >>> folder, because only root has write access to it. Then every three >>> hours boztu writes to it and backs up the changes in the home folder, >>> but I want user boztu to do =all= of it including creating the new >>> dated folder. >>> >>> Does this make sense? >> >> Mmm, why don't you just... >> >> - Mount the USB disk to be user writeable (this can be set at "/etc/ >> fstab"), and then - Use the user's crontab to run the task? >> > Very succinctly put, except the hard drive is automatically mounted by > Gnome, thats the only mistake you made.
It wouldn't be if it were in fstab. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jcvpsf$tdu$1...@dough.gmane.org
