Solved: Howto write CDs with Lite On
--- Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:40:18AM -0700, Joris
> Huizer wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > Thank you for all the good advise & howto's - I
> guess
> > I was silly lite-on needs special care rather than
> the
> > "usual" setup :-)
> >
> > I found the cdrecord only allows the root user -
> why
> > is that ? And, what can I do to allow normal users
> to
> > use it?
>
> I think it needs to lock its buffer into memory, so
> it can't be
> swapped out, which requires root privilege. Or
> something along those
> lines - maybe setting process priorities? Anyway,
> the cure is to make
> it setuid root:
>
> (as root) chmod u+s `which cdrecord`
>
> cdrdao needs the same treatment for the same
> reasons, and
> cdda2wav runs faster and more reliably (in terms of
> not producing
> corrupted recordings) if you do the same thing to
> it.
>
Cool - that did it !
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> Pigeon
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