There have been reports from people who want to run VDR as user 'root' and have trouble with access rights when using "-u root". The attached patch simply skips all the SetCaps() and SetUser() stuff when VDR is started as 'root' and the option "-u root" has been given. This should then behave just like older versions. Klaus -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: vdr-1.3.38-root.diff Type: text/x-patch Size: 641 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/attachments/20060109/2ad36a48/vdr-1.3.38-root.bin