Hello, i am having troubles ejecting cd's and playing music cd's
The problem is that my cdrom device file is /dev/hdc instead of /dev/cdrom I like it when it is /dev/cdrom, but in fc3 it is /dev/hdc . and, the problem is that regular users can't access the /dev/hdc file. what i did to make everything work as a quick fix, was to chmod 777 /dev/hdc. is that safe? or insecure? how are things supposed to be done? thanks for any help.

you should create a symbolic link as follows,

ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom

so now /dev/hdc will also be known as /dev/cdrom and chmod 777 /dev/cdrom. The permissions for my /dev/hdc are just rw by root.

For /dev files you just need to set 666 as permission mask. 'cause you just need read/write access to these files as you'll never exec them

I see, that makes sense actullay, never thought about it.

thanks for the help guys, i now have a link called /dev/cdrom for hdc and i chmodded 666 the hdc dev file. Everything seems to be working now. But i still have one last question: why wasn't it set up like this when i installed? shouldn't fedora core should have done this for me? What about that hal daemon that prevents me from making any changes to the my fstab? egad, it seems redhat has put too many behind the scenes things for me to figure this stuff out!
Is there like a manual for all of fedora core 3 i could use?

thanks for the help,
-p

While this solution works, I think its a little different than it first appears.

In FC3, when a cd is mounted, it is no longer mounted in /mnt, rather it gets mounted in /media. In my case, I have a dvd burner as my cd drive and my drive gets mounted in /media/cdrecorder. I have a sneaky feeling that this has something to do with the new udev stuff included in FC3.

I am sure that just a few days ago, when I tried to use eject to eject a cd, it complained that it could not find /mnt/cdrom. Why did it look for /mnt/cdrom? a ha! its an eject problem, it seems that eject is either configured or hard coded to look for /mnt/cdrom.

The confusing thing is, that I just tried this to verify before I post and it now appears to work! I expect the 'apt-get update' I ran last night fixed the problem (???) who knows, perhaps there was an update of eject..

Anyway thats my take on the situation.

Cheers.