On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 06:25:10PM +0000, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: > Le 25.01.2005 19:53:36, Sjoerd Simons a écrit : > >On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 05:10:44PM +0000, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) > >wrote: > >>Le 25.01.2005 17:26:19, Sjoerd Simons a écrit : > It refuses to start with this option: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] % /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes > --drop-privileges ~ > 15:03:35.500 [E] hald.c:284: drop_privileges: could not initialize > groups
You need to run it as root for that.. > Maybe there is a permission problem: udev doesnt create the > deviceconsistantly. Sometimes /dev/hda iscreated with roo:disk, > sometimes (mostly) root:cdrom and sometimes root:floppy. I remarked > that /dev/hdc isalways created correctly, not hda When it's created as root:disk then hal won't work (can't pol that drive), for both root:floppy and root:cdrom (with rw for the group) it should be fine.. Sjoerd -- Death is nature's way of saying `Howdy'.
