From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 10 16:48:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA29487 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:48:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from studio.watertower.com (studio.watertower.com [204.178.73.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA29456 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:47:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dallastx@studio.watertower.com) Received: from localhost (dallastx@localhost) by studio.watertower.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA25279; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:15:57 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:15:57 -0500 (CDT) From: David Lee Vondrasek To: merlin@A470.demon.co.uk cc: Martin Poulin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDPlayer only runs as root? In-Reply-To: <19980908222103.3577.qmail@A470.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 . 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* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message