I think a bit more investigation is needed before you can assume that this a system wide problem. How many binaries are exhibiting this problem? You might also want to look at the chattr command.
--- Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're running a linux box as root and you execute a root only > executable and it comes back with... > > error: this must be run in root mode... > > What do you do then? This, I believe, is the root of all my cups, > LPRng and turboprint problems... This particular box was used as a > test machine for ext3 and had experienced a couple of "crash tests", > etc... > > Could a box be corrupted where it works perfectly, but it just doesn't > let root be root? If so, that would explain why Cups died a miserable > death and LPRng and turboprint can't or won't access root own files, > even while logged in as root... > > Now... how do you go about fixing root? :') ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
