On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:50:17AM +0530, shivaprasad javali wrote: > Hi. > > The app that i am trying to run must be run as super user for it to run > properly. So i tried using su -c app_name in the shell script described in > the link http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=1555.0 > > Now the activity just says starting in the home ring and doesnt > launch.
The reason why your script fails is that general activities are run with low privilege and are not permitted to exercise the privileges of the human operator. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rainbow http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=security;a=blob;f=bitfrost.txt;hb=HEAD for some details. Now, what are you actually trying to accomplish? Michael _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel