Re: mc double-click action doesn't work on VFAT

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

The VFAT problem is probably due to the fact that FAT partitions have no
concept of permission bits, so every file has the same permissions.  This
includes having every file executable.  To fix this, edit /etc/fstab and
add noexec to the options for your vfat partition (this probably means
changing the word defaults to defaults,noexec for that partition's entry).
Then to get the permissions correct for the current session, run
  mount -o remount,noexec /mount/point/of/vfat/drive

James.

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On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Keith Wear wrote:

> I don't know if this is a known problem.  When I double click on
> file.jpg on a linux partition, ee opens the file.  When I double click
> on file.jpg on a vfat partition, the string "# ./file.jpg" or something
> like that shows up in the window where I started panel.  I am not at my
> Linux machine now to do further testing.
> 
> Also, is there any progress on a gnome dependency tree.  I've seen the
> "install order" documents, but would like to see something that shows
> things like "gnome-core doesn't depend on libgtop, but will have more
> features if libgtop is installed".  That might be a dotted line, where a
> pure dependency would be a solid line.
> 
> While I'm here, I'm having trouble with some compiles.  e and
> control-center(?) have checks for imlib1.8.2 which fail even though I
> have 1.9.4 installed from an rpm.
> 
> Keith Wear
> 
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