Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:50:06 GMT From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/114168: [PATCH] audio/esound lacks startup script for esd Message-ID: <200708231950.l7NJo6Gl013970@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/114168; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/114168: [PATCH] audio/esound lacks startup script for esd Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:45:51 +0200 --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 02:27:22PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > Esd is designed to be run as the current user, and not as root. I don't > think starting it out of rc.d is a good idea.=20 How does esd gain access to the sound devices when running as a normal user? I guess you'd have to give everybody read and write access to the devices in question. I'm not sure how that is safer than running esd as roo= t. > What other distributions do this? I don't know. I just found it inconvenient that it doesn't start automatically, like a daemon should (if configured in rc.conf) Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGzePvEnfvsMMhpyURAitGAJ9r0QiXRFNq23BwsW2sk0vAFCucUgCgij5h U8sUsbmRq00IN5i0eM03CRM= =Lqqd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3--
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