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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news-kar1.dfn.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news-mue1.dfn.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: problem wit my cdrom Date: 11 Mar 1997 22:17:16 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5g4llc$1gv@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5fjq8p$ofe$1@concorde.epita.fr> <5fk83g$lie$2@news.fred.net> <331E9211.41C67EA6@teligent.se> <5g4lhl$1gv@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36942 j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: > (All this is very gross code.) NB: xmcd isn't better either. :-/ Make sure you compile it to use the ioctls to control the drive, as opposed to emitting direct SCSI commands. It doesn't need any special privileges then, so you might want to remove any setuid bits as well. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)