Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:01:13 +0200 From: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> 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: <4A2ACB09.1070500@boosten.org> In-Reply-To: <20090606191241.GB21767@slackbox.xs4all.nl> 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> <20090606191241.GB21767@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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Roland Smith wrote: > 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 >>> 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 ;-) > > 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. > Ah, yeah, you're right. Sorry, missed that one. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org
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