<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Dalibor Malek wrote: <blockquote cite="mid410E8E3F.1020303@zwickl.net" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> Andy Green wrote: <blockquote cite="mid200408021925.37251.fedora@warmcat.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 02 August 2004 18:45, Dalibor Malek wrote: Hi - </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">we talked a while ago about your usbautocam Script (which is absolutely great). I have one question to this script. Is it really only possible to run that script as root? I made a user with standard rights and run the script but when I try to add a stick I get a failure message. And then if I plug the stick in or out nothing happens. When I do this as root its working fine. Is it possible to run the script as normal user or if not is it possible to auto login as root? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> The usbautocam script sets up automount and hotplug and so on in /etc, starts and stops the automount script and suchlike. For these actions it needs to have root powers. To be clear though, the usbautocam script is only run once to set up the device. After that you should be able to plug the device in while logged in as a normal user without needing to touch usbautocam again. If that's not working, email me offlist with the errors and we'll see what we can see. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">P.S. I'm running FC2 with kernel-2.6.7-1.501.i586, on a VIA Eden Box. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Those little VIA boards are very nice. They should be a lot cheaper though. - -Andy - -- Automatic actions for USB cameras, cardreaders, memory sticks, MP3 players <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://warmcat.com/usbautocam">http://warmcat.com/usbautocam</a> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBDocgjKeDCxMJCTIRAhndAJ9T4EzlLHQbsCpdk0qq/1xG+nq2ygCeLOsF QkO+x1wdLZFKowtKP931BQk= =053D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </pre> </blockquote> Hi Andy, I'm getting this on the logs by a plugout and plugin. Aug 2 20:39:57 dmgsurface sshd(pam_unix)[4595]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Aug 2 20:45:26 dmgsurface udev[4982]: removing device node '/udev/sg0' Aug 2 20:45:26 dmgsurface kernel: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2 Aug 2 20:45:27 dmgsurface udev[5000]: removing device node '/udev/sda1' Aug 2 20:45:27 dmgsurface udev[5011]: removing device node '/udev/sda' Aug 2 20:45:33 dmgsurface kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 3 Aug 2 20:45:34 dmgsurface kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Aug 2 20:45:34 dmgsurface kernel: Vendor: LEXAR Model: JUMPDRIVE Rev: 1.01 Aug 2 20:45:34 dmgsurface kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Aug 2 20:45:34 dmgsurface kernel: SCSI device sdb: 251904 512-byte hdwr sectors (129 MB) Aug 2 20:45:34 dmgsurface kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off Aug 2 20:45:34 dmgsurface kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through Aug 2 20:45:35 dmgsurface kernel: sdb: sdb1 Aug 2 20:45:35 dmgsurface kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Aug 2 20:45:35 dmgsurface kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 Aug 2 20:45:35 dmgsurface kernel: updfstab: Using deprecated /dev/sg mechanism instead of SG_IO on the actual device Aug 2 20:45:36 dmgsurface scsi.agent[5103]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host1/1:0:0:0 Aug 2 20:45:37 dmgsurface su(pam_unix)[5182]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Aug 2 20:45:38 dmgsurface udev[5236]: creating device node '/udev/sdb' Aug 2 20:45:38 dmgsurface udev[5237]: creating device node '/udev/sdb1' Aug 2 20:45:39 dmgsurface udev[5239]: creating device node '/udev/sg0' Aug 2 20:45:39 dmgsurface su(pam_unix)[5182]: session closed for user root The problems is my scripts is not getting started, when I do this as root my script is getting started. I already tried to change the rights and the owner of the script and of the directories but nothing worked. I tried to make a new user with root rights but, it didn’t work. It would solve all my problems if I could auto login with root but this isn’t working either. What else could I do? Thank You. </blockquote> P.S. As root I never com to sdb1 I always stay at sda1. </body> </html>