Christoph Gohle schrieb: > vdr can not be compiled on my 2.4 system because setting capabilities is > not supported. > > Maybe it would be nice if this feature is automatically disabled if a > 2.4 kernel is found? This would save compatability to older systems. > > Only a suggestion. From the readme of libcap-1.10: Overview -------- As of Linux 2.2.0, the power of the superuser has been partitioned into a set of discrete capabilities (in other places, these capabilities are know as privileges). The contents of the libcap package are a library and a number of [...] It should not be a problem to install this lib on a 2.4.x-kernel. regards Alfred