Hoary k3b woes continue

Liz Young liz at kandew.com
Sun Jan 16 16:51:02 UTC 2005


Hi Kent,

On Sat January 15 2005 11:04 pm, Kent Frazier wrote:
> $ ll `which growisofs`
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 57K 2004-11-01 11:24 /usr/bin/growisofs*
>
> Perhaps if I changed its group to cdrom (the burning group) and set
> group permission to +rwx, it would allow me to use it as a member of
> the group.  I am a bit afraid to mess around with this, because I am
> not sure its relevant and I don't want to screw anything up.
>
> Any insights?

I don't have a DVD burner.  What kernel version?  (asking because search 
returns hits on kernel/growisofs breakage).

I don't see any harm in changing the permissions for testing purposes... 
you can always change back.  Same for trying a different kernel 
version.

-Liz




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