Re: [e-users] trying to control eSound

2004-06-03 Thread John Meissen
I said: > What I need is for the -promiscuous option to work as documented. I added > it to /etc/esd.conf, and I can see it in the process command-line. But it > doesn't work. In fact, it's even worse - it appears to have exactly the opposite effect. Am I reading the man page wrong? If I start

Re: [e-users] trying to control eSound

2004-06-01 Thread John Meissen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > John Meissen said: > >I can only talk to the server if I'm the user that started it. > > > The user who launched esd must type 'esdctl unlock' to let other user > use this daemon, I think. Does it solve the problem ? Actually, I replied too soon. No, it doesn't solve th

Re: [e-users] trying to control eSound

2004-06-01 Thread John Meissen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > John Meissen said: > >I can only talk to the server if I'm the user that started it. > > > The user who launched esd must type 'esdctl unlock' to let other user > use this daemon, I think. Does it solve the problem ? I swear I tried that before. OK, maybe I didn't. :-/

Re: [e-users] trying to control eSound

2004-06-01 Thread Raphaël PLASSON
John Meissen a écrit : A long time, in a version far, far away (circa 2001), I could use esdctl to pause/resume esd and it didn't matter what user I was. Fast-forward to a more recent version (Mandrake 10.0 release), and even though the permissions on the socket are 777 I can only talk to the ser

[e-users] trying to control eSound

2004-05-27 Thread John Meissen
A long time, in a version far, far away (circa 2001), I could use esdctl to pause/resume esd and it didn't matter what user I was. Fast-forward to a more recent version (Mandrake 10.0 release), and even though the permissions on the socket are 777 I can only talk to the server if I'm the user th