On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 09:21:53AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:42:46 +0300 > Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:33:36AM -0400, Frank wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Running Sid/Lenny -- after recent updates, CD burning on my > > > > > machine has stopped working. > > > > > > it's been suggested wodim has to run with suid set and > > > that solved my problem. > > > > I'm not sure this was your problem: > > > > $ ls -l /usr/bin/wodim > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 350984 2008-03-17 23:30 /usr/bin/wodim > > > > and I can burn CDs (I use k3b) without any issues. > > > > Interesting. I've just installed the cdrecord docs and I'll have a look. > I am beginning to suspect the problem goes deeper than I thought. The author of cdrecord will always say you need to set it suid, even if you don't really need to (IIRC this has been a major disagreement with the Debian maintainer and has contributed to the fact that we have wodim now). Beware though that wodim and cdrecord are quite different. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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