[newbie] Linux Unix Question

2002-03-07 Thread Paul Kraus
How do you know what /dev/device is your tape drive for using tar? Linux how do you create as script that will issue a command such as mount that normally only superuser can use? I want to me able to mount and dismount network resources without having to switch to SU. The mnt directorys already

Re: [newbie] Linux Unix Question

2002-03-07 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 19:20, Paul Kraus wrote: Linux how do you create as script that will issue a command such as mount that normally only superuser can use? I want to me able to mount and dismount network resources without having to switch to SU. The mnt directorys already contain the

Re: [newbie] Linux Unix Question

2002-03-07 Thread Brian Parish
Paul, sudo may be the easiest answer for the mount issues. If it's not already installed, it's available on your LM distro. Just install it, grant yourself access to mount as root, then make an alias or script that precedes the mount command with sudo. HTH Brian On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 04:20,