Hi

I am trying to write the folowing code into a shell script, to enable me to hotplug a scsi scanner, without giving out the root pasword to the users. (Wife and Child)

Code as follows

#!/bin/bash
#
# A small script to automatically mount the scanner and start xsane.
#
typeset -i num
num=`cat /proc/scsi/scsi | grep Scanner | wc -l`
if [ $num -eq 1 ]; then
echo "scsi add-single-device 1 0 6 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi
xsane
else
xsane
fi

The script runs as root or suid, but when running as suid it will not write to /proc/scsi/scsi permission not granted and I am unable to change the permissions of /proc (for good reason).

I've found a solution Thanks anyway.