On Monday 14 January 2002 21:13 pm, Jerry McBride wrote:
> If you're running a linux box as root and you execute a root only
> executable and it comes back with...
>
> error: this must be run in root mode...
>
> What do you do then? This, I believe, is the root of all my cups, LPRng and
> turboprint problems... This particular box was used as a test machine for
> ext3 and had experienced a couple of "crash tests", etc...
>
> Could a box be corrupted where it works perfectly, but it just doesn't let
> root be root? If so, that would explain why Cups died a miserable death and
> LPRng and turboprint can't or won't access root own files, even while
> logged in as root...
>
> Now... how do you go about fixing root? :')
>
> Cheers all... I'm off to my vax-d session...
I'm no ghuru on permissions and groups but is it possible that root is no
longer in the right group? I'd take a look at the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
files. Compare with another system if you have to.
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