[plug] floppy drive permissions (was compiling problem)

Andrew Furey simpware at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 21 09:49:33 WST 2002


> Before I Was having a problem with compiling source
> on a disk and then 
> finding that I got a "permission denied" error when
> I tried to run the 
> resulting proggy(even as root), I tried compiling
> the source under my home 
> directory and everything was good and groovy. So can
> anyone tell me what I 
> need to add in my fstab line to get the execute
> permissions for the floppy 
> drive (note: using SuSE 7.3)?

Most likely you need to either remove "noexec", and/or
add "exec" (as appropriate) to the options for that
fstab line.

HTH
Andrew

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