Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > There have been reports from people who want to run VDR as user > 'root' and have trouble with access rights when using "-u root". Yes, the direct access to the parallel port was denied so i had to use a slower mechanism in the graphlcd-plugin which is controling LCD-display. > 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. Thanks, this is now back to normal. I prefer to run vdr as root (this is my home and i'm controlling the machines :) Other might like to do it another way, so go forward. > Klaus Thanks ! /hgm.bg