Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 21:12:41 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> Cc: glyn@millingtons.org, bf <bf2006a@yahoo.com>, Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX Message-ID: <20090606191241.GB21767@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <4A2AAFA3.7080502@boosten.org> References: <900923.129.qm@web39101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <86prdhuazk.fsf@nowhere.org> <b6c05a470906061046g7a23529esaded539a48b94125@mail.gmail.com> <20090606180108.GA20291@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4A2AAFA3.7080502@boosten.org>
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--rJwd6BRFiFCcLxzm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:04:19PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: > 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 > >=20 > > Regular users don't have read/write permissions on /dev/mdctl. > >=20 > > So either change those permissions so that your user-id has those > > permissions, or run mdconfig as root. > >=20 >=20 > Hmmm, one might think that 'sudo' does exactly that ;-) It does that for the mount_cd9660 command, but _before_ sudo it called, the code between backticks is executed by the shell as the regular user. I thought that was obvious, so I didn't mention it. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --rJwd6BRFiFCcLxzm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkoqv6gACgkQEnfvsMMhpyUTrwCgr/qiR966z3g5D9NeFnfFZz2/ RqcAoKWwKhh+zoTwnGb2NGbfqyBHc1OE =oYWS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rJwd6BRFiFCcLxzm--
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