Grip or RipperX as root
hello!
I'd like to know if it's bad to use those apps as root! I can only use them as root since i do not have acess to cdrom as normal user( i don't know how to change settings). Thank you.... |
well yes, running everything as root is technically bad if it's avoidable. having said that it's realistically pretty harmless. any default user should alawys have read access to /dev/hdc or wherever your cdrom is though.
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Run your applications as a normal user. only use root when administering your system etc using "su".
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i do not know what to do..... thank you anyway |
Can you explain what happens when you try to run them as a normal user.
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When i try to run grip as normal user i got this message:
Errror: Unable to initialize [dev/cdrom] Trying to run RipperX i got this message: make sure an audio disc is in the drive and that you are either running ripperX as root, are a member of the "cdrom" group, or otherwise have appropriate permission to acess the CDROM device Error: cdparanoia camplains: Error trying to open dev/hdc exclusively(permission denied) |
"chmod 666 /dev/cdrom" or "chmod 666 /dev/hdc" as root should solve your problem.
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thank you so much!! |
I am having a similar problem. Under Root, it rips and encodes cd's just fine. When I launch it as a user, it just ejects the cd.
I tried the chmod 666 /dev/cdrom still just ejects the cd same with chmod 666 /dev/hdc any ideas? post edit: I did switch my ripper to cdda2wav and it worked, but it doesn't explain why cdparanioa isn't working. I did to uninstall / reinstall cdparanioa, verified permissons on it to chmod 666. This is what I have for cdparanioa in grip /usr/bin/cdparanoia -d %c %t:[.%s]-%t:[.%e] %w ~/home/simian/temp0/%A/%d/%t-%n.wav |
Same problem I am having.
Using Fedora Core 3, kernel 2.6.9-something. I tried using cdparanoia independantly and no problem there. I found a suggestion to use scsi-emulation so I loaded the sg-module, but no luck. cdparanoia reports something on scsi-emulation, I will look further into that direction, but am still puzzled. Actually I quit my search, I found I already have a working kaudiocreator, this works just fine. I stick with that. |
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