On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 21:17 -0500, Charles Malespin wrote: > Hi, I am trying to figure out why my CD rom drive wont open when I use > the eject command. It tells me that the device is busy and that it is > being used, but to my knowledge it isnt. So I tried ' lsof ' to list > what was going on in the /media/cdrecorder drive but it tells me that > lsof command not found. I am using FC3, does this command not exist > for my OS? I am a newbie so I really dont know what to do or if this > is a stupid question... Any help or ideas? Thanks, > Charles It's /usr/sbin/lsof so regular users don't "see" it in their search path. If you want to use commands which are typically only available to root, you can become root from a command prompt by issuing the command: su - Note the trailing hyphen. This will allow you to become root temporarily until you exit the shell. Thomas
