Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!rtf.bt.co.uk!grundy From: grundy@rtf.bt.co.uk (Martin Grundy) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Problems with DOSDIR, DOSREAD, and DOSWRITE Keywords: MINIX, DOSREAD, IBM Message-ID: <1991Jun25.073904.15423@rtf.bt.co.uk> Date: 25 Jun 91 07:39:04 GMT References: <1516@opus.NMSU.Edu> <13507@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK Lines: 24 In article ns@csd.cri.dk (Nick Sandru) writes: > [some deletions] >I did it too, but when I tried to use DOSXXX from a non-privileged login, >it failed. I had to set DOSXXX as setuid root. > >Nick Sandru > Check the permissions/owner on /dev/fd0 etc. If the owner is bin or root and the permissions are set to -rw------, there's your problem. Do:- chmod 666 /dev/fd? to allow "world" to read/write. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Grundy | email: grundy@rtf.bt.co.uk British Telecom Customer Systems | Hyperion House | phone: +44 273 762102 96-99 Queens Road | fax: +44 273 722038 or Brighton BN1 3XF. | +44 273 762071 (netfax)