Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!bennett From: bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Can an OD be Permanently mounted? Message-ID: <1991Apr12.040315.12259@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 12 Apr 91 04:03:15 GMT References: <1991Mar07.091952.28376@ecst.csuchico.edu> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 31 In article regn@informatik.uni-ulm.de (Robert Regn) writes: >In <1991Mar07.091952.28376@ecst.csuchico.edu> mrush@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu (Matt "C P." Rush) writes: > > >> Is there any way to Mount an OD (as root, probably) and then set som >>thing so that no one can eject it? The system runs off of a Hard Drive, and >>has 1 Optical Drive that I'd like to permanently Mount for additional, seldom- >>used files. >> Since the Cube is readily accessible, I'd like to have some way of >>preventing users from coming in, unmounting the OD, and walking off with or >>damaging 256MB of files and a $100 cartridge. Is this possible? > >Yes: create a process which has the 'current directory' somewhere on the od No, no, this does *not* work. You appear to be responding to a very old thread. Read the rest before you continue posting on any thread. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG Systems Programming Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Illinois 60115 ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett@cs.niu.edu * * BITNET: A01SJB1@NIU * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "Well, I don't know, but I've been told, in the heat of the sun * * a man died of cold..." Oakland, 19 Feb. 1991, first time since * * 25 Sept. 1970!!! Yippee!!!! Wondering what's NeXT... :-) * **********************************************************************