Another thought...

[Guy Templin]

John,

That was it. However it was on my old system /u was a mounted filesystem and
the new system is not. I totally forgot about that. I changed my new fppath
to read.

/usr/appl

/usr/appl


and it works fine now.

Thanks much to everyone for your help.

Guy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Esak" <john at valar.com>
To: "Fplist (E-mail)" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Cc: <Guy_Templin at adelphikitchens.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:43 PM
Subject: Another thought...


>
> As I think about it, and because Jim Asman brought it up... :-)  Your
> problem is likely not setperms, but PATH.... or a combination of both.
>
> Make sure the /etc/default/fppath file is correct. This means, if you had
> before on your old system,
>
> /u/appl
>
> /u/appl
>
> and it worked fine. This is because you did not have a separate (mounted)
> hard drive for the /u filesystem. The /u filestyem was actually on the
first
> hard drive (along with /).  If, on your new system, you actually do have a
> second hard drive, but are still using /u/appl scheme, then the
> /etc/default/fppath file must look like this:
>
> /u/appl
> /u
> /appl
>
> I know it isn't a big differnce, beccause the 2nd and 3rd lines get
combined
> to point to the files... but it is significantly different.
>
> In any case, therein probably is your problem. If this is the answer,
thank
> Jim for bringing it up to me in the FP Room. We were just mentioning the
> list and I'm on a machine that doesn't have any of JP's or your email. So
> hopw this works.
>
> John
>
> P.S. - The idea is that the second line of /etc/default/fppath must be the
> "mount point" of the file system you are using, i.e., /u.
>
>
>
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