On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:55:29AM -0600, Greg Rolling wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Florin Iucha wrote: > > > > 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 > > Login as root and check the permissions on /dev/fd0 then add your > > account to the proper group. > > I am using Red Hat 7.2. My /dev/fd0: > brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Aug 30 15:30 /dev/fd0 > > and when I grep greg /etc/group: > disk:x:6:root,greg > floppy:x:19:greg > greg:x:500: > > but I'm still getting error messages that only root can mount /dev/fd0 > when not logged on locally. Do I need to restart crond, or is there > something else I'm missing? Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it. Well, I'm not sure if there is anything more to it for red Hat, but you probably have to add the "user" to the floppy line in /etc/fstab. Something like: /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user 0 0 -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org