report cards read-only on floppy

[Dave Mason]

Dave Mason wrote:

>My guess is that you've hit what I'll call the "Open Office file lock
>bug".  I presume the files aren't read-only in any other program
>(e.g. you can say: touch /mnt/floppy/foo.doc).

Chris Aitken wrote:
> I tried that. Still read-only.

> [chris at p733 chris]$ su
> Password:
> [root at p733 chris]# touch /mnt/floppy/*.doc
> [root at p733 chris]#

Try the touch *not* as root.  If (as I expect) you get no error, then
it's almost certainly the OpenOffice "bug".  The touch command isn't a
fix.  There *is* no fix (unless/until Linux floppy driver clears up its
support of locking, or OpenOffice decides to make the locking failure do
something different).

If you get an error similar to what you get on a regular file you only
have read-only access to, like:

; touch /bin/sh
touch: cannot touch `/bin/sh': Permission denied
; 

Then your problem with the floppy files is *not* the OpenOffice "bug",
and you should keep looking.

../Dave
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