I demand that Tommi Lundell may or may not have written... [snip] > I use debian (testing release) and after installing "apt-get install > libcap-bin libcap-dev libcap1" packages vdr (1.3.38) compiling fine. # aptitude install libcap-dev is sufficient; the others are automatically installed and will be marked as such if you don't explicitly specify them, they're not already installed and you use aptitude. > But when i try to start it "source/vdr/vdr-1.3.38# ./vdr -c /etc/vdr -L > /usr/local/lib/vdr/ -w 60 -E /var/cache/vdr/ -Pdxr3" I get error "vdr: > cap_set_proc failed: Operation not permitted" > Even command "./vdr --help" gives that "vdr: cap_set_proc failed: Operation > not permitted" error. Works for me, but then I'm not making use of capabilities and I'm not starting it as root. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | d youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | nr. Ashington, | Debian, | s zap,tartarus,org | Northumberland | RISC OS | @ | Toon Army | <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.packages.html> Dawn already? Doesn't time fly when you're programming...