On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, das wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 13:44 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > > OK then you DO have a C compiler and the guys who are trying to get > > your > > fstab right are working the real problem. > > Yeah, and as dear friend Andy Green suggested, I made a temporary > compile directory in my home, which is on ext-3, and compiling both > lame and mplayer. > > lame is done, now, make on mplayer is going on without any such > monstrocity. > > So, from now on should I always use 'exec' as an option in fstab for > reiserfs too, as once I used on the vfat partitions, when I had MSW > in my machine, and hence vfat partitions? but "exec" *is* the default mount option. if you look at the man page, the mount option "defaults" is short for: defaults Use default options: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async. so perhaps i came in late, but is there any reason the standard mount options wouldn't be appropriate? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list