On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 06:52:45AM -0600, Greg Rolling wrote: > I wrote a script to mount a floppy disk, backup some files and then unmout > the disk. I added this to crontab for my regular user account. When I am > logged in to the machine locally the job runs fine. When I am not logged > in, I get an error message that tells me that only root can mount /dev/fd0 > on /mnt/floppy. You are probably using RedHat or Mandrake... both have a mount helper daemon that changes device permissions so that the logged-in user can mount them without too much fuss. Login as root and check the permissions on /dev/fd0 then add your account to the proper group. Example: florin at bear:~$ ls -l /dev/fd0 brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Oct 18 13:45 /dev/fd0 florin at bear:~$ ls -l /dev/scd0 brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Oct 15 01:10 /dev/scd0 florin at bear:~$ grep florin /etc/group disk:x:6:florin dialout:x:20:florin cdrom:x:24:florin floppy:x:25:florin Cheers, florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020130/262b1e4b/attachment.pgp