Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 20:36:25 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: David Lee Vondrasek <dallastx@studio.watertower.com> Cc: merlin@A470.demon.co.uk, Martin Poulin <mpoulin@honk.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDPlayer only runs as root? Message-ID: <199809110132.SAA16516@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:15:57 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980910190557.25203A-100000@studio.watertower.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.980910190557.25203A-100000@studio.watertower.com>, Da vid Lee Vondrasek wrote: } } 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. All well and good, but the list is here as a volunteer effort, and how (or whether) questions get answered is strictly up to whomever takes the time to respond. It's a fine tool for learning, and I'm all for people answering questions in a calm and helpful manner (and I do think it's somewhat harmful when people are vitriolic), but whatever the case, you got more than you paid for. All that said, a more in-depth response from the original respondent wouldn't have taught you much about the question being asked, because the answer and the question aren't related in any way (except perhaps that both concern topics related to computers). One does not mount an audio CD to play it; the problem is most likely that the permissions on the device file /dev/wcd0a don't permit the user invoking cdplayer access, so the player can't do anything with the drive. Reading the chmod(1) man page would probably go farther towards solving the problem. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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