Re: [PLUG] HELP! PLUG needs more JOBS mailing list moderators

2018-01-29 Thread wes
I volunteer. -wes On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:37 PM, Michael Dexter wrote: > > Hello, > > The spammers are attacking and it would be great if a few more people > would be willing to moderate the list. This is done through a web interface. > > Interested? > > Thanks! > > Michael Dexter > PLUG Vol

[PLUG] HELP! PLUG needs more JOBS mailing list moderators

2018-01-29 Thread Michael Dexter
Hello, The spammers are attacking and it would be great if a few more people would be willing to moderate the list. This is done through a web interface. Interested? Thanks! Michael Dexter PLUG Volunteer (Yes, there is a 1st Thursday speaker lined up. Working on the announcement) _

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-29 Thread Jason Bergstrom
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 09:32:11PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > For now I have shelved the idea of a symlink. > > Here is what I get from lsscsi -g: > $ lsscsi -g > [2:0:0:0]cd/dvd hp BD MLT UJ260AF FW06 /dev/sr0/dev/sg0 > [4:0:0:0]disk ATA Crucial_CT480M50 MU03 /dev/sda

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-29 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 19:55:45 -0800 King Beowulf dijo: >On 01/29/2018 02:22 AM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: >> Pretty old distro/kernel. For what is worth it - I do not have the >> same problem with 16.04. >> >> Anyway, how about creating soft link pointing to /dev/sr?. Did you >> try that? >IIRC, /dev/

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-29 Thread King Beowulf
On 01/29/2018 02:22 AM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > Pretty old distro/kernel. For what is worth it - I do not have the same > problem with 16.04. > > Anyway, how about creating soft link pointing to /dev/sr?. Did you try that? > > Tomas > IIRC, /dev/sg* are character devices, /dev/sr* are block devic

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-29 Thread Tim Bruce - PLUG
JJJ - /dev is usually a protected directory. You should probably be doing: sudo ln -s /dev/sg0 /dev/sr0 Tim -- Timothy J. Bruce visit my Website at: http://www.tbruce.com Registered Linux User #325725 On Mon, January 29, 2018 15:31, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2018, John Jason Jo

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 29 Jan 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote: ln -s /dev/sr0/ /dev/sg0/ ln: failed to access ‘/dev/sg0/’: Not a directory Oops. My mistake. ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/sg0 ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/dev/sg0’: File exists When you do a long list of devices, ls -l /dev/s* do yo

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-29 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:18:07 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard dijo: >On Mon, 29 Jan 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> A slight problem: >> >> $ ln -s /dev/sg0 /dev/sr0 >> ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/dev/sr0’: File exists >> >> What am I doing wrong? > You have them backwards. Try: > >

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-29 Thread wes
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 2:18 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > A slight problem: >> >> $ ln -s /dev/sg0 /dev/sr0 >> ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/dev/sr0’: File exists >> >> What am I doing wrong? >> > > John, > > You have them backwards. Try: >

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 29 Jan 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote: A slight problem: $ ln -s /dev/sg0 /dev/sr0 ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/dev/sr0’: File exists What am I doing wrong? John, You have them backwards. Try: ln -s /dev/sr0/ /dev/sg0/ sr0 is the target and sg0 is the link name.

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-29 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:10:41 -0800 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >Yes, this would create soft link to /dev/sr1 and satisfy your >application. And so on... >I assume the syntax should be ln -s /dev/sg0 /dev/sr0, and >ln -s /dev/sg2 /dev/sr1, right? Or do I have that backwards? A slight problem: $ ln -s /d

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-29 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Yes, this would create soft link to /dev/sr1 and satisfy your application. And so on... These links might disappear at some point, but that would be easy to solve, if it works for you. Tomas On Jan 29, 2018 8:49 AM, "John Jason Jordan" wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 02:22:22 -0800 Tomas Kuchta di

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-29 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 02:22:22 -0800 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >Pretty old distro/kernel. For what is worth it - I do not have the same >problem with 16.04. > >Anyway, how about creating soft link pointing to /dev/sr?. Did you try >that? No, I did not. try creating a soft link. I assume it would need to

Re: [PLUG] SCSI device driver

2018-01-29 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Pretty old distro/kernel. For what is worth it - I do not have the same problem with 16.04. Anyway, how about creating soft link pointing to /dev/sr?. Did you try that? Tomas On Jan 27, 2018 9:39 AM, "John Jason Jordan" wrote: > Xubuntu 14.04.5, all updates applied. > > I have a program that c