Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 09:29:38 -0400 From: Martin Poulin <mpoulin@honk.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDPlayer only runs as root? Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980911092938.0090fe90@honk.org> In-Reply-To: <199809110020.UAA01357@spectre.honk.org> References: <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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At 08:36 PM 9/10/98 -0500, <various people> wrote: >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. Well, as a newbie and as the original poster of the problem, I can say that I appreciate any and all advice given to me. I can also say that someone on this list gave me the solution within 24 hours of my original post - so anything that came afterwards was an added bonus. BTW - I suppose chmod would do the trick too, but I fixed the problem in this case by adding my account to the group "operator" in /etc/group. I suppose chmod would be a better solution if you wanted *all* users on the system to have access to the cd-rom, but in my case I'm the only user so it's not a big issue. M. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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