I think I am there.
The good news is that you were right all along Thomas,
-use-the-force-luke does work exactly as you thought and explained.
What confused things is that I wasn't getting the cron output directly
(the system manager gets these mails) and re-installing the latest dvd
tools progs
Latest,
Upgraded to 5.21 which I believe to be the latest release.
Tried the -use-the-force-luke switch but still get a FATAL error when
running the growisofs command within a CRON job.
If I check the man page for 5.21 it still suggests that this is normal
behaviour, it doesn't give any clues as
Many thanks for the reply.
I'm not sure it's an environment problem as the man page for growisofs
states in the notes:
*** Man page extract ***
NOTES
If the media already carries isofs and growisofs is invoked with -Z
option non-interactively, e.g. through cron, it shall fail with "FATAL:
/de
I am running Fedora Core 1 and trying to automate (CRON) a system
backup routine writing to DVD +RW.
I've loaded the current DVD+RW-TOOLS package from Redhat and am using:
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cdrom -r -J mytarfile.tar
to write the required tar to the DVD. All works fine from the com
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