-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, I have a question about mounting a floppy disk. 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. I also get this message when I am logged in remotely through ssh, whether attempting to mount the floppy drive via script or command line, unless I am logged in locally as the same user that I am remotely logged in as. I would assume that I could add the job to root's crontab and it would run all the time without error. I'm just wondering where I can look for an explanation of this behavior. I have read the mount and cron man pages, but didn't find anything about permissions or how they run together. Where would I look for how/why this works like it does? Thanks for your help, Greg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8VpsjEcEnk+U0Hj8RAvGMAKCeT5eg7lvjoTzQ/Vp0m5YfPStFSQCgi4Ig eWvOyKFllf/Cxlpl9FXIdfs= =hcku -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----