Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:08:55 +0600 From: Denis Eremenko <moonshade@pnhz.kz> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: ports/114168: [PATCH] audio/esound lacks startup script for esd Message-ID: <1189411735.60021.5.camel@abyss.pnhz.kz> In-Reply-To: <46CDE80D.9050000@FreeBSD.org> References: <200708231950.l7NJo6Gl013970@freefall.freebsd.org> <46CDE80D.9050000@FreeBSD.org>
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> > I don't know. I just found it inconvenient that it doesn't start
> > automatically, like a daemon should (if configured in rc.conf)
>
> I've never had a problem because GNOME starts it as my user. I'm very
> leery about running a daemon as root that is clearly designed to be run
> as a normal user.
>
Because you have "auto_spawn=1" in esd.conf, and default esd.conf not.
esound's changelog:
2006-08-07 David Schleef <ds@schleef.org>
* esd.conf: Turn autospawning off by default. Don't use
autospawning. It doesn't work, and it isn't possible to
make it work. esd should always be started from the session
manager.
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