On Monday 09 January 2006 18:54, Oliver Friedrich wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: > > 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 > > Hi Klaus, > > Thanks for the patch. It solves my problem with the text2skin-plugin, > that was not able to load a lot of the channel logos or needed fonts if > they were accessed via a symlink. > > Oliver > Hi Oliver, A better approach would be to just set the permissions of the files to sane values as I think running vdr as non-root is a lot better. Matthias -- Matthias Schwarzott Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org
