From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 9 16:15:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF89B37B401 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:15:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-m01.mx.aol.com (imo-m01.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC7F843FB1 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:15:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edinho64@netscape.net) Received: from edinho64@netscape.net by imo-m01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.21.) id q.1b7.576c3c2 (16238); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 19:14:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from netscape.net (pool-68-160-106-19.nwrk.east.verizon.net [68.160.106.19]) by air-in03.mx.aol.com (v92.17) with ESMTP id MAILININ32-3f6e3e94a943297; Wed, 09 Apr 2003 19:14:12 -0500 Message-ID: <3E94A93B.7050403@netscape.net> Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 19:14:03 -0400 From: "E. J. Cerejo" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar References: <20030409175619.V91268-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: cdrecord, cdrdao and gtoaster X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 23:15:35 -0000 fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar wrote: > On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, E. J. Cerejo wrote: > > >>That didn't work either! I gave it write permissions but I still get >>the same error. > > > Instead of messing with the permissions, why don't you try sudo? > That way, you can run the programs as root. works like a charm. > > > Fer > I've heard very good things about sudo but I was never able to figure out on how to write the sudoers file from reading the man page, I tried to use it for the mount command before I ended up doing something else to solve that problem instead of sudo and since then I haven't fooled around with sudo anymore. I looked for a simple tutorial on it but didn't find much documentation except for the manuals.