Bash scripts

[Paul Fox]

kevin wrote:
 > Sascha:
 > 
 > 
 > Continued to play with this.  Went into nautilus on an ext2 formatted
 > card, and there is a checkbox in the panel for allowing execution of
 > files.  The owner and other permission boxes didn't seem to do
 > anything; but, clicking that on *did* work. Also, you were correct
 > about it needing to not be FAT, checking that box, even though it sill
 > displays, didn't 'stick' for FAT. Thanks.

i've lost track of where exactly this issue sits, but if it's
a regression, i suggest opening a ticket.  then it can be resolved
in a documented fashion (whether fixed as bug or "wontfix"ed as
a feature).

paul

 > 
 > Cheers,
 > 
 > 
 > KG
 > 
 > On Monday, April 18,
 > 2011, Kevin Gordon <kgordon420 at gmail.com> wrote:
 > > Sascha:
 > >
 > > The file system actually had no bearing on the issue I was having, whether 
 > ext2,
 > > ext3, or FAT32, the symptoms were identical - recent versions of udisks now 
 > does not allow
 > > 'direct' execution of scripts from auto-mounted removable media.
 > >
 > > Also,
 > > there is some debate as to whether putting a journalling fs onto an SD
 > > or USB drive is wise, as it might half its life by in essence doubling the 
 > number of writes.  In
 > > general,  I tend to stick with the factory default unless I need
 > > multiple partitions, symbolic link, or specific linux-swap support, since I 
 > presume the
 > > manufacturer has formatted it with the right number of blocks, units,
 > > etc to best match their controller/memory config.  If I need those, I will 
 > still use ext2.  Call me optimistic :-)
 > >
 > > Cheers,
 > >
 > > KG
 > >
 > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Sascha Silbe 
 > <sascha-ml-reply-to-2011-2 at silbe.org> wrote:
 > >
 > > Excerpts from Kevin Gordon's message of Mon Apr 18 00:36:26 +0200 2011:
 > >
 > >> But, since my main use of this technique is to
 > >> semi-automate the process of installing a slew of custom activities and
 > >> rpm's upon initial build and deployment, having to manually change every
 > >> machine manually to basically avoid 5 keystrokes, was sort of
 > >> counter-productive  :-)
 > >
 > > If you're only using this USB stick with Linux machines, why don't you
 > > just format it using a file system with POSIX semantics, i.e. ext3?
 > >
 > > Sascha
 > >
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 > >
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