Re: cdrecord-2.01.01a21 refuses work on Linux 2.4 if non-ide-scsi DVD-ROM is present

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

scdbackup@gmx.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
> > If you (thomas) have been able to chmod u+s on a file owned by root,
> > then something looks broken.
> >     
>
> The procedure is:
> - "thomas" compiles cdrtools
> - "root" copies ./cdrecord/OBJ/athlon-linux-cc/cdrecord to /usr/bin
> It shows up as owned by root, group is root. (But somehow isn't.)
> - "root" executes chmod u+s
> Now it fails as effective user "thomas".
> - "root" chowns it to root
> Now it works as effective user "root".
>
> But only on one partition. There is another ext3 partition
> with exactly the same mount options. No problems on that.

Does "ls -ld" show the same thing on both directories? No setuid on the 
directory itself, or anything like that? Nothing different with lsattr?

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
 CTO TMR Associates, Inc
 Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979