From: Arno L. <al...@it...> - 2005-11-06 22:42:57
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Hello, On 06.11.2005 22:55, Tracy R Reed wrote: ...lots of stuff resolved... I must have overlooked that mail, obviously. > Another odd problem I ran into is that growisofs does not like to be run > under sudo. In fact it completely aborts. Read the man page for growisofs. In my version, there is an explanation of that behaviour, the reasons for it, and ways to work around it. > This is a real hassle Indeed, but it should be possible to resolve. > because > I generally use only sudo and never log in directly as root. Good idea, especially if you're not operating a dedicated single-purpose server for backups only. > I generally > don't even have a root password configured (Ubuntu style, although I am > running Fedora). MacOS X style, even :-) > But I had to set one and use su because of this. Not > bacula's fault, just writing it to get this into the archives in case > someone else runs into it. man growisofs ... NOTES If executed under sudo(8) growisofs refuses to start. ... But note that the recommended alternative to the above "workaround" is actually to install growisofs set-root-uid, in which case it will drop privileges prior accessing data or executing mkisofs in order to preclude unauthorized access to the data. Arno > Thanks! > -- IT-Service Lehmann al...@it... Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de |