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Date:      Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:15:57 -0500 (CDT)
From:      David Lee Vondrasek <dallastx@studio.watertower.com>
To:        merlin@A470.demon.co.uk
Cc:        Martin Poulin <mpoulin@honk.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CDPlayer only runs as root?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980910190557.25203A-100000@studio.watertower.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980908222103.3577.qmail@A470.demon.co.uk>

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On Tue, 8 Sep 1998 merlin@A470.demon.co.uk wrote:

> > I recently installed XCD and CDPlayer on my system.  I managed to
> > get them working after a few tries (setenv CDPLAYER /dev/wcd0a)
> > but neither one of them will function unless I execute them as root.
> > 
> > CDPlayer gives me an error like "/dev/wcd0a: permission denied".  (sorry
> > I don't know the exact wording - I'm at work now and my system is at home.)
> 
> man mount
> man fstab
> 			should help ye


Feed a man a fish and he will be feed for a day. Show him how to fish and
he will be feed a life time. But at LEAST show him were the lake is and
what a pole looks like. 

I'm all for reading the *man* pages but, I use to read this list a few
months ago because I always learned something. Mr.White use to answer 
the majority of the questions from *newbies* and help as much as he could.
I always learned something new each day from the list. But it's getting to
the point almost half the answer's you see are RTFM or man <whatever>.
It's really hurts to see new users of FreeBSD put off like this. If this
would have happen to me a year ago I would be back in windows right now.
I don't have the time to read every man page for questions asked in this
list to see what *I* might learn from the list.


Dave
*Remebering a list that was helpful*



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