From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 6 18:04:25 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CC041065680 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 18:04:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from smtpq4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.167]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12CE18FC18 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 18:04:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from [212.54.34.139] (helo=smtp8.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MD0Fi-0003oR-PX; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:04:22 +0200 Received: from [84.25.72.219] (helo=ra.egypt.nl) by smtp8.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MD0Fh-0006vA-FI; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:04:21 +0200 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (xp.egypt.nl [192.168.13.35]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A37E39885; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 20:04:19 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4A2AAFA3.7080502@boosten.org> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:04:19 +0200 From: Peter Boosten User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Smith References: <900923.129.qm@web39101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <86prdhuazk.fsf@nowhere.org> <20090606180108.GA20291@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20090606180108.GA20291@slackbox.xs4all.nl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1MD0Fh-0006vA-FI X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-0.186, required 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_40 -0.18, SPF_PASS -0.00) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: peter@boosten.org X-Spam-Status: No Cc: glyn@millingtons.org, bf , Daniel Underwood , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:04:25 -0000 Roland Smith wrote: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: >> Having trouble mounting the ISO: >> >> [daniel@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode >> -f ./texlve2008.iso` ./mount/ >> mdconfig: open(/dev/mdctl): Permission denied > > Regular users don't have read/write permissions on /dev/mdctl. > > So either change those permissions so that your user-id has those > permissions, or run mdconfig as root. > Hmmm, one might think that 'sudo' does exactly that ;-) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org