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Date:      Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:24:22 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        gnome@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/114168: [PATCH] audio/esound lacks startup script for esd
Message-ID:  <20070823212422.GA39448@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <46CDE80D.9050000@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200708231950.l7NJo6Gl013970@freefall.freebsd.org> <46CDE80D.9050000@FreeBSD.org>

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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

Ah. I'm not running gnome, just using esd with fvwm2.

> I'm very
> leery about running a daemon as root that is clearly designed to be run
> as a normal user.

Understandable. But the startup script could be adapted to start esd as
a non-root user.

Roland
--=20
R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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