trouble with 'eject' of cdrom, writing cdrom

[Jim Cornette]

John Francis Lee wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have FC3 installed and notice that, although FC3 mounts a cdrom when
> inserted into my cdrom reader/writer, it complains when I try to eject
> it :
>  eject: unable to open `/dev/hdc'
> 
>  [jfl at ws8 ~]$ ls -l /dev/hdc
>  brw-rw----  1 root disk 22, 0 Dec  1 19:28 /dev/hdc
> 
> So I have changed the permissions :
>  [jfl at ws8 ~]$ ls -l /dev/hdc
>  brw-rw-rw-  1 root disk 22, 0 Dec  1 19:28 /dev/hdc
> and now things seem to work.
> 
> Yet I have read that the /dev directory is now dynamically populated,
> somehow.
> Under what conditions is the /dev directory dynamically populated? 
> Will I have to reset permissions in the future?
> 
> Thanks for any light you might shed on this phenomenon.
> 

I believe that there was a program that was upgraded that removed this 
behavior. Is your system upgraded to the latest available upgrades? I am 
thinking that it was udev, but not sure as to the specific component 
containing the fix.

Jim