man, 05,.09.2005 kl. 11.31 -0700, skrev Mike Jewell: > Just to follow up on this in case someone else has this same problem > with xcdroast: > > I believe that when I updated my os to Fedora Core 3, the version of > xcdroast (or maybe one of the apps it is a front-end for) changed so > that you need to be root to run it. The bad part is that there is no > indication that this is the problem. Here is the output when I DON'T > run it as root: > > cdrecord: No write mode specified. > cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. > deleted lines... > Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 > cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version > (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c > 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). > SCSI buffer size: 64512 > deleted lines... > cdrecord: Drive does not support TAO recording. > Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support > Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. > cdrecord: Illegal write mode for this drive. > > > When I run it as root, it seems to be (mostly) happy and writes a good > CD every time. > > Mike > Mike Jewell > One-Up Audio > -snip- You need to either change your cdrom device's permissions so they are writable by you, or make the cdrecord binary suid. http://debianlinux.net/~jama/howto/cd_mastering_steps.html#user_access The root account is not that different from normal users, often file permissions is the problem when "it works as root". I believe cdrecord can gain realtime priority when it's running as root, but on a modern system it works fine without. -- Frode Haugsgjerd Norway
