On 5/18/09, Jesus Guardon <jguar...@telefonica.net> wrote:
> Yes, I know it may be a little off-topic, but the question is:
>
> I need to launch a process with root privileges from SHELL command in
> Gambas. Users of my application can have Gnome or KDE, so I don't know
> which command I must issue to get it to work.
>
> Is there a way to choose between either gksu o kdesu commands at runtime?
> I've figured it out if it could be something like:
>
> SHELL "gksu | kdesu -u root 'some_command'"
>
> or
>
> SHELL "gksu -u root 'some_command' | kdesu -u root 'some_command'"
>
Here's what I do in the vl-hot-config utility:
*******************************************************
' Gambas module file
PUBLIC SUB Main()
DIM MyProc AS Process
DIM Ret AS String
IF System.User.Id <> 0 THEN
EXEC ["which", "kdesu"] TO Ret
IF InStr(Ret, "kdesu") THEN
EXEC ["kdesu", Application.Path &/ "vl-hot-config.gambas"]
ELSE
EXEC ["which", "gksu"] TO Ret
IF InStr(Ret, "gksu") THEN
EXEC ["gksu", Application.Path &/ "vl-hot-config.gambas"]
ELSE
PRINT "No kdesu or gksu available (vl-hot-config needs to run
as root)..."
ENDIF
ENDIF
QUIT
ENDIF
FMain.Show
END
*******************************************************
Regards,
Joe1962
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