Re: growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso

2005-08-03 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 11:52:32PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: Hello, I tried growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso on Linux and it worked. I tried the same on FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD and I got growisofs: no mkisofs options are permitted with =, aborting... what version

Re: DVD-video imaging

2004-08-26 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:29:03PM -0400, Peter King wrote: I just got a Plextor 712A, which has gotten good reviews from Linux users for compatibility. I flashed the firmware to the latest available version, 1.04. It reliably and readily will read CDR, CDRW, DVD-video, DVD-R, DVD+R. (It

Re: cdrtools-2.01a37 ready

2004-08-21 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 11:04:41AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: On OpenBSD, members of the operator group are allowed to reboot the system, change tapes ... normal things that someone trusted to operate the system would be allowed to do. Letting them write to CD/DVD is very low on the

Re: cdrtools-2.01a37 ready

2004-08-20 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 08:10:12AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Volker Kuhlmann Let's not forget that there are 2 separate changes SuSE makes: the DVD addons (daft, and I've told them so), About that i don't care much. growisofs covers all my DVD needs. I understand, though, that

Re: Testers for OpenBSD NetBSD needed

2004-08-20 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 05:45:53PM +0200, Frederick Page wrote: Hi Joerg, Joerg Schilling wrote on Fri, Aug 20 2004: Aug 19 18:39:45 thebetteros /bsd: cd0: transfer error, downgrading to DMA mode 2 Then after suid'ing cdda2wav, it worked on any

Re: cdrtools-2.01a37 ready

2004-08-20 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 03:49:28PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: How do you believe that you may run cdrecord without root privs without compromising the security of the whole system? On OpenBSD, members of the operator group are allowed to reboot the system, change tapes ... normal things

Re: cdrtools-2.01a37 ready

2004-08-19 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 08:47:50AM +0200, Lourens Veen wrote: On Thu 19 August 2004 07:51, Jacob Meuser wrote: I doubt any government regards the GPL as an entity, so the GPL has no rights. the GPL is a contract; following the GPL gives entities rights. SuSE can release a really buggy

Re: Testers for OpenBSD NetBSD needed

2004-08-19 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 06:44:08PM +0200, Frederick Page wrote: Hi Joerg, Joerg Schilling wrote on Thu, Aug 19 2004: In order to make sure that cdda2wav is not hitting the same problems on OpenBSD NetBSD, I would need people who like to test a suid cdda2wav on OpenBSD NetBSD systems.

Re: Testers for OpenBSD NetBSD needed

2004-08-19 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:12:56AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Jacob Meuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 11:46:37AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Hi all, as it turned out far too late that cdda2wav did not work when installed suid root on FreeBSD, I did

Re: Testers for OpenBSD NetBSD needed

2004-08-19 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:11:31AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Frederick Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aug 19 18:34:35 thebetteros /bsd: pciide0:1: bogus intr Aug 19 18:39:45 thebetteros /bsd: cd0(pciide0:1:0): timeout Aug 19 18:39:45 thebetteros /bsd: type: atapi Aug 19

Re: Testers for OpenBSD NetBSD needed

2004-08-19 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:47:29AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Jacob Meuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your problem is caused by a OpenBSD kernel bug. The kernel does not handle odd DMA counts for ATA correctly. really? you have made a PR about this? I don't get anything matching

Re: Testers for OpenBSD NetBSD needed

2004-08-19 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 03:18:52AM +0200, Frederick Page wrote: Hi Joerg, Joerg Schilling wrote on Fri, Aug 20 2004: Aug 19 18:39:45 thebetteros /bsd: cd0: transfer error, downgrading to DMA mode 2 Your problem is caused by a OpenBSD kernel bug. The

Re: cdrtools-2.01a37 ready

2004-08-18 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:36:05PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Thu 19 Aug 2004 12:03:07 NZST +1200, Joerg Schilling wrote: you are nothing but a moron that has no clue and that is not even willing to do a comparison test with the real cdrecord because you are in fear that you might

Re: mkisofs udf help!

2004-08-09 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 09:41:32PM +0200, Carsten Neumann wrote: On Mon, 09 Aug 2004, Joerg Schilling wrote: Just read the OSTA UDF documents. It is not helpful to post such comments without an appropriate link. Oh good grief. google - osta udf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Access rights with growisofs

2004-07-15 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:25:42PM +0200, Andy Polyakov wrote: There is a very big difference between suggesting in documentation and breaking in code. I'm sorry that I have seen one too many user/system administrator effectively disregarding security while pursuing every-day practical

Re: Access rights with growisofs

2004-07-12 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 05:44:21AM +0800, Nick Urbanik wrote: I agree that sudo is useful; I wrote this intro to sudo for my students: http://ictlab.tyict.vtc.edu.hk/ossi/lab/sudo/sudo.pdf which includes a picture of a chainsaw, under which I wrote, Doing everything as root is like cutting

Re: hanging flushing cache

2004-04-30 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:51:59PM -0400, James Herschel wrote: I'm running Debain Sarge rc2 and have upgraded to kernel 2.6.3. I have an LG DVD-Burner (GSA-4081B v A100) that isn't closing sessions. I am using growisofs which appears to be writing fine, but always sticks at /dev/hda:

Re: Problem using a TEAC DV-W22E with dvd+rw-tools/cdrecord-prodvd/dvdrtools.

2004-04-13 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 01:24:51PM -0400, Geoffrey wrote: That being said, I'll not take up any more of your precious time with further responses to this thread. Would people _please_ stop picking on Joerg. It should be quite obvious that if a) people don't read documentation, or b)

Re: Problem using a TEAC DV-W22E with dvd+rw-tools/cdrecord-prodvd/dvdrtools.

2004-04-13 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 01:24:51PM -0400, Geoffrey wrote: That being said, I'll not take up any more of your precious time with further responses to this thread. Would people _please_ stop picking on Joerg. It should be quite obvious that if a) people don't read documentation, or b)

Re: Problem with DVR-107D under OpenBSD

2004-03-20 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:59:22PM +0100, Edouard Alligand wrote: Hi all, I am trying for two days to burn an image to my brand new DVR-107D. I tested the drive under Windows XP SP1 : it works fine with several different media, so it's not a hardware problem. My problem is, that under

Re: Problem with DVR-107D under OpenBSD

2004-03-20 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:59:22PM +0100, Edouard Alligand wrote: Hi all, I am trying for two days to burn an image to my brand new DVR-107D. I tested the drive under Windows XP SP1 : it works fine with several different media, so it's not a hardware problem. My problem is, that under

Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type

2004-01-27 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:19:17PM +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: this was a modified version of cdrecord (or at least not clear enough as far as Jörg's concerned) which according to Jörg violates section 2a of the GPL. Hence his calling it illegal. Well, I think it's pretty lame to have

Re: plextor px-708uf: cannot get disk type

2004-01-27 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:19:17PM +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: this was a modified version of cdrecord (or at least not clear enough as far as Jörg's concerned) which according to Jörg violates section 2a of the GPL. Hence his calling it illegal. Well, I think it's pretty lame to have