Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:43:47 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/114168: [PATCH] audio/esound lacks startup script for esd Message-ID: <1187905427.22397.12.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20070823212422.GA39448@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <200708231950.l7NJo6Gl013970@freefall.freebsd.org> <46CDE80D.9050000@FreeBSD.org> <20070823212422.GA39448@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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--=-9eE19UQC2CACK1KFZ6EX Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 23:24 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:03:25PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > I don't know. I just found it inconvenient that it doesn't start > > > automatically, like a daemon should (if configured in rc.conf) > >=20 > > I've never had a problem because GNOME starts it as my user.=20 >=20 > Ah. I'm not running gnome, just using esd with fvwm2. It should be trivial to add something to .xinitrc or whatever you use to start X that also spawns esd. >=20 > > I'm very > > leery about running a daemon as root that is clearly designed to be run > > as a normal user. >=20 > Understandable. But the startup script could be adapted to start esd as > a non-root user. But as which user? As I said, esd is designed to run as the user that will be connecting to it to play sounds. Joe --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-9eE19UQC2CACK1KFZ6EX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGzf+Rb2iPiv4Uz4cRAglcAJ9nfDO06JZOTxNcHeK0/llVf2cFAQCfWsgi FiMEimyKyeyb3QiK2B9Qbis= =RpQA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-9eE19UQC2CACK1KFZ6EX--
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