Re: bash script kdesu root privilege problem

> On Sunday 17 February 2008 05:19:57 pm Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am using k3b-0.12.17-1.el5 on CentOS 5.1 (RHEL 5.1 clone).
>>
>> I can run k3b as any user and as root perfectly.
>>
>> But, when I run K3B from a bash script as
>> a user and try to elevate k3b to get root privileges,
>>
>>      #! /bin/bash
>>       kdesu -n -u root -c "k3b --nofork"
>>
>> I get all kinds of the following errors:
>>
>>          Unable to find growisofs executable
>>          K3b uses growisofs to actually write dvds.
>>          Without growisofs you won't be able to write
>>          dvds. Make sure to install at least version
>>          5.10.  Solution: Install the dvd+rw-tools package.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> -T
>> p.s. sudo does not work either
>>

Jeff Adams wrote:
 > Todd;
 >
 > Check the default path for bash in /etc/profile.
 > I suspect it does not contain the location where growisofs is located.
 >
 > Jeff
 >
 >

Hi Jeff,

    You called it.  Added "/usr/bin" to /etc/profile and
that did the trick.  Thank you!

-T


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