Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3893 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

James Knott wrote:
> Patrick Shanahan wrote:
>   
>> * James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> [12-31-06 17:22]:
>>   
>>     
>>> I have noticed that if I start K3B manually, it can find growisofs, but
>>> not when it's started by KDar.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Doesn't this make you think that there might be a path problem?  I
>> would check that kdar has the full path to k3b, change the working
>> directory for kdar, start kdar from a script denoting specific paths
>> including /usr/bin/....
>>
>>   
>>     
> I suspect it's due to growisofs not wanting to run under sudo.  I've
> been doing some testing and found that if I run KDar as a regular user,
> it works, though I have to keep the "slice" size below the default 4400
> MB for DVD's.  So far, 4000 works and I'm currently trying 4100.  Also,
> running it as a user greatly limits what I can back up, so next I'll try
> logging in as root, instead of just runnning KDar as root.
>
> According to the growisofs man page, there is an option to allow it to
> be used under sudo, but recommends against it for security reasons. 
> It's not a path issue, as /usr/bin is in root's path and K3B has no
> problem finding other files there.  Also, K3B specifies the full path to
> the executables, so the PATH variable shouldn't even affect it.
>
>
>   
Further on this.  I can run KDar and burn DVD's, if I log in a root, but
not if I run as root, from a user log in.  I still haven't determined
why I can't have a slice bigger than 4000 MB.

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