Ah!  I forgot about the differences between primary and secondary
groups.  I had to switch my primary group to 'disk' via the 'newgrp'
command then it worked fine.

Thanks,
Fran

On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 12:59, Alexander Jolk wrote:
> > -bash-2.05b$ /usr/local/src/mtx-1.2.17rel/loaderinfo -f /dev/sg1
> > cannot open SCSI device '/dev/sg1' - Permission denied
> 
> Are you sure you are a member of group `disk'?  `id' at the shell prompt
> gives you that info, as does `groups'.  If you aren't, have you logged
> in anew since you changed /etc/group?
> 
> Alex
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Fran Fabrizio
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Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Alabama - Birmingham
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