Re: K3B CD-burning Dell 700m laptop, Only burns while root

2004-12-20 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
Robert Goley wrote (Mon 2004-Dec-20 09:31:43 -0500): > wrapper script using sudo. An example script is below. .. > sudo cdrecord $@ I strongly suggest using "$@" instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] "$@" is equivalent to "$1" "$2" "$3"... while $@ is equivalent to $1 $2 $3... See "man bash" for details

Re: K3B CD-burning Dell 700m laptop, Only burns while root

2004-12-20 Thread Robert Goley
It won't. That is what I meant by the 2.6.8+. Linux and other developers closed off some scsi commands so that only root can use them. It was done for security so that people can not write over a SCSI HD like it was a cd. cdrecord's developer is supposed to use SUID to correctly access those co

Re: K3B CD-burning Dell 700m laptop, Only burns while root

2004-12-19 Thread Jason Martens
Benedek Frank wrote: Thanks Compiling 2.6.9 now. Hope that fixes it. Ben On Friday 17 December 2004 01:35 pm, you wrote: >If you are running a 2.6.8+ kernel, you can only burn cds as root. > >Robert Well, sort of. See here... http://k3b.plainblack.com/index.pl/news2 > >On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 15:

Re: K3B CD-burning Dell 700m laptop, Only burns while root

2004-12-17 Thread Benedek Frank
Thanks Compiling 2.6.9 now. Hope that fixes it. Ben On Friday 17 December 2004 01:35 pm, you wrote: > If you are running a 2.6.8+ kernel, you can only burn cds as root. > > Robert > > On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 15:59, Benedek Frank wrote: > > Hi > > > > I installed k3b to burn CD's but only able to d