Turns out the problem was some corrupted files on my backup CD. 
Ouch.  Guess it pays to investigate to see if everything on a CD 
is okay.  95% of my files were okay, but a hundred or so were bad. 

Thanks Craig and everyone who helps ... 

Joe 


On Thursday 15 December 2005 17:46, you wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 16:33 -0700, Josef Lowder wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 December 2005 16:27, you wrote:
> > > the just wondering question...
> > >
> > > is /mnt/cdrom mounted?
> > >
> > > ls -l /mnt/cdrom
> > > are there any files?
> >
> > Yes, I should have mentioned that.  All the files are there
> > on the cdrom and it does mount automatically.
> >
> > I also neglected to mention that it is copying filenames,
> > but with the current date and empty files (file size=0)
>
> ----
> keeping it on list.
>
> sounds like perhaps the user who has the 'mount' is not the same user
> who is trying to do the copy.
>
> ???
> ls -ld /mnt/cdrom
> ls -l /mnt/cdrom
> whoami
>
> Craig
>
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