[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Couldn't jazip be setgid to disk?
Probably, but I'd need to change group permission on the jaz/zip scsi device to `rw'. By default it's only `r' (on my system anyway). $ ls -l /dev/sda brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 0 May 19 1997 /dev/sda Would it be okay for me to write a jazip configuration script that did that? Is a package allowed to do that? What I might wind up doing anyway is moving the jazip executable to /usr/lib/jazip/jazip and create a /usr/bin/jazip script to call it with the right device, e.g.: #!/bin/sh /usr/lib/jazip/jazip /dev/sdc "$@" So I'll need a configuration script to prompt the user for the scsi device to use, using parsed /proc/scsi/scsi as an initial guess. At the same time I can change the permissions on the scsi device (I don't really know how I'll implement changing them back!) -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/