Re: can't play music cd

2000-12-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:23:33PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > Thanks for pointing out how dumb it is being a member of disk group. I was > just > removing myself ( ;-) ) and noticed that in addition to the group dip (needed > to be able to use pon), there was a group dialout. What is this

Re: can't play music cd

2000-12-26 Thread John Hasler
Matthew Sackman writes: > ...there was a group dialout. What is this group doing there? 'dialout' is the group for the serial ports. > and under which circumstances would one ever need to be a member of it? To open a serial port. You don't have to be in dialout to run pon because pppd is setuid

Re: can't play music cd

2000-12-26 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 00:03:15 -0900, Ethan Benson said: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:19:00AM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > > NEVER *EVER* add yourself to group disk. *NEVER* > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id > > uid=1000(aphro) gid=1000(aphro) groups=1000(aphro),

Re: can't play music cd

2000-12-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:19:00AM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > NEVER *EVER* add yourself to group disk. *NEVER* > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id > uid=1000(aphro) gid=1000(aphro) groups=1000(aphro), > 0(root),4(adm),5(tty),6(disk), 20(dialout),24(cdrom), > 25(floppy),29(audi

Re: can't play music cd

2000-12-26 Thread Nate Amsden
Ethan Benson wrote: > NEVER *EVER* add yourself to group disk. *NEVER* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id uid=1000(aphro) gid=1000(aphro) groups=1000(aphro), 0(root),4(adm),5(tty),6(disk), 20(dialout),24(cdrom), 25(floppy),29(audio),50(staff),60(games),45(usb) *cough* shoot me :P nate -- ::: ICQ: 75

Re: can't play music cd

2000-12-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:50:35PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Robin Rowe wrote: > > > I want to play a CD using gtcd. It objects that it can't see the CD. Sure > > enough, not mounted. Do audio CDs mount? Can I convince autofs to do the > > job? > > > > You don't mount aud

Re: can't play music cd

2000-12-26 Thread David Purton
On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Robin Rowe wrote: > I want to play a CD using gtcd. It objects that it can't see the CD. Sure > enough, not mounted. Do audio CDs mount? Can I convince autofs to do the > job? > You don't mount audio CDs make sure you're part of the appropriate group to access /dev/cdrom (o

can't play music cd

2000-12-25 Thread Robin Rowe
I want to play a CD using gtcd. It objects that it can't see the CD. Sure enough, not mounted. Do audio CDs mount? Can I convince autofs to do the job? What's the best way to play a music CD in debian? Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED]