danco;477676 Wrote: > I've just realised a glitch with the setup script on Mac OS X. > > It has to be run using sudo. But this requires the user to be an admin > user. > > I do not normally run as an admin user, and Squeezebox Server was > installed from my standard user account. > > If I switch to my admin account, then the sudoers file does not get > correctly changed (I think, but am not sure about this) and the log file > definitely gets created under the admin user, which is not what's > wanted. > > Simplest solution seems to be to add, in the setup notes, that > non-admin users should be set up temporarily as admin ones. > > Another solution (if the only issue is with the log file, and not with > sudoers) might be to have two setup scripts, one just for creating a log > file. > > I did find SvrPowerControl was doing what I wanted. But a problem > elsewhere in my system forced me to restore from a backup that did not > have the changed sudoers file, so I have to run the setup again. Which do you think is the simpler / safer instruction?
To instruct the user to temporarily change their account status to administrator, or, to login as the administrator and, from a terminal: # sudo echo nonadminusername ALL=(ALL) ALL >>/etc/sudoers Actually, it seems pretty clear that your suggestion is better. I'll update the help file. Thanks. -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
