Camera Mount Problems

joel112 · 08-25-2003, 07:25 AM

right my problem is that my camera can only be mounted at root, and its annoying, anyway round this, anyway to put it in a script to make it do it automatically when a comand is run, i currenly have it mounting when i run "cam", but i can only do it as root, any ideas how i can get round this

grym · 08-25-2003, 07:31 AM

chmod 666 /dev/video*

Mathieu · 08-25-2003, 10:22 AM

Quote:

chmod 666 /dev/video*

NO
Do not change the permissions in the /dev directory

If you want to allow normal users to mount the camera, you need to add an entry in the /etc/fstab file with the option user

Code:

/dev/sda1               /mnt/camera          vfat    defaults,user        0 0

If you want to create a script to mount the camera, take a look at this thread.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=83497

joel112 · 08-25-2003, 10:43 AM

i need it so it doesnt mount at boot, because it might not necessarily be connected

and it still doesnt solve how i can mount it as a user...

Mathieu · 08-25-2003, 11:12 AM

If you do not want the camera to be mounted at system boot, you will need to add the noauto option to the entry in /etc/fstab

Code:

/dev/sda1               /mnt/camera          vfat    noauto,users        0 0

If you want to know more about the options, take a look at the mount MAN page.

grym · 08-26-2003, 09:49 AM

Matthieu is right. I misunderstood and thought you were referring to a webcam, sorry.