Anders Eriksson wrote: > dan...@pocock.com.au said: > >> I've added some notes to the wiki about how I boot into freevo (using a gdm >> Init script), and also how I'm using a multi-seat configuration: >> >> http://doc.freevo.org/BootFreevo >> >> Any feedback on either of these topics or the scripts I've provided would be >> welcome. >> > > As I've been looking into this recently, I appreciate the writeup. However, > it > doesn't speak about runing freevo as non-root. This is rather critical imho, > as it's a big chunk of code, forking lots of other stuff. I hope you agree. >
If you look at my script, you will see that the freevo process is started as the user `freevo' using the su command, so it does not get to keep the root privileges of gdm > I was looking into using start-stop-daemon to exec the recordserver and > webserver as a dedicated user, but got stuck. It seems s-s-d assumes that a > daemon instance can be identified by its binary's name, but in freevo's case > that's "python", and the rest is just arguments with no meaning to s-s-d. > > The Debian packages implement recordserver and webserver as daemons - have you had a look at that? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
