Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices | | From | David Woodhouse <> | | Date | Mon, 09 Aug 2004 15:51:19 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 16:40 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> > > >On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 16:12 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >> If you are right, why then is SuSE removing the warnings in cdrecord > >> that are there to tell the user that cdrecord is running with insufficient > >> privilleges? > > >Because those warnings are bogus, put there by someone who likes to > >complain about things that are not _really_ a problem? > > Try to inform yourself before sending wrong mails.....
Jrg, you are making a fool of yourself.
> People who use the official cdrecord know that they need to run cdrecord > with root privilleges. People who run the bastardized version from SuSE > don't know this and fail to write CDs.
Actually I run the bastardised version from another distro -- also as myself rather than as root. With BurnFree enabled to ensure that buffer underruns don't cause problems (not that they happen _anyway_), I see no failures due to not running as root.
-- dwmw2
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