Richard Schiffelers wrote:
>
> At 22:38 28-10-00 -0500, you wrote:
> >When I run xcdroast I get the error message:
> >
> >[drfickle@potato lib]$ xcdroast &
> >[1] 7571
> >[drfickle@potato lib]$
> >** WARNING **: Invalid cdrecord version found. Expecting version 1.9
> >
> >I know that xcdroast used to come with it's own version of cdrecord as
> >part of the package. But when I 'rpm -ql xcdroast | grep cdrecord' I get
> >no output and if I look in /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin there is not
> >cdrecord binary. So I guess its broke. Please fix :)
>
> There is nothing wrong with xcdroast. It's totaly ok in Mandrake 7.2. Let's
> look a bit further at the problem. Xcdroast needs cdrecord which when we
> check is installed in /usr/bin. The permissions on cdrecord look like this:
>
> -rwsr-s--- 1 root cdwriter 166780 Oct 2 22:57 cdrecord*
>
> What do we learn from this. Only root or a member of the cdwriter group is
> allowed to use cdrecord. So the fix is simple. Make everyone who needs to
> use cdrecord a member of the cdwriter group.
>
> Richard Schiffelers
Ok, I knew I had to be a member of the cdwriters group, but that's an
poor error message none the less. Thanks for helping to find the
problem. Anyone know why xcdroast is no longer bundled with its own
cdrecord? Need new features that the crusty version doesn't have?
--
Steve Fox
http://k-lug.com
