I'd never considered that root user would have a diferent nice level to
normal users. I've no idea why as the OS I used to use (VME) has a special
ID you can login to when the machine is so heavily stuffed that normal
users are hanging. Effectively running right up there with the kernel.
Saying that, if the suid bit is set and the process picks up the
permissions of root, will it not also pick up the niceness of root also?
Shoot me if I'm talking drivel here....
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
David van Balen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 16/02/2000 16:12:51
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Subject: Re: [newbie] xcdroast
As a side note, xcdroast should run as root so that cdrecord can run with
a more favorable nice value, reducing the possibility of buffer underruns.
Hence running as suid root and not changing the ownership of the file...
DvB
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Never used xcdroast but is it owned by root?
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> If so, set the 'suid' bit with
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> chmod +s xcdroast
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> and run it from the non-root user. The program should run as though it
has
> been called by root. I'm currently trying to do the same thing with a
> program trying to write to my mounted dos partitions, but not getting
much
> luck! Time for more man pages I think!
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> Steve Flynn
> IBM MVS Operations Analyst
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> Mike Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 16/02/2000 12:25:02
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> Subject: [newbie] xcdroast
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> Hi to all!
>
> I have finally managed to get my EIDE burner working (I think)
> in Linux, but I can only seem to start xcdroast when logged in
> as root.
> What is the procedure for making it accessable for ALL users?
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>
> Cheers:
>
> Michael Perry.
> R&D. Dep. Netafim Magal.
> <<<<Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack>>>>
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