On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:20:38AM +0000, Chris Owen wrote: > Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: ... > Try running (as root) > chmod ugo+rwx /dev/cdrom
I think it's ill advice, not worthy of this list --sory for the rant, it's not personally, it's just that you're not the first to give such nonsensical advice, it seems that it's even a favourite one lately:(-- , to advice people to mess with those flags where the proper way is to add users to specific groups. In this case the cdrom group. And whilst the OP is add it, he might as well check he's in the audio group too. > If your sound card uses other devices, such as /dev/dsp or /dev/mixer, > you may need to do the same to these too. I knew it:), to access those you need to be in the audio group. Haralambos, maybe you should check your system again, and undo all those chmod commands, and instead use the appropriate groups? -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
