[Fedora-music-list] jack and /etc/security/limits.conf

2007-01-07 Thread Anthony Green
One of the annoying things about running qjackctl on a fresh Fedora install is that you have to remember to edit /etc/security/limits.conf as per /usr/share/doc/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.102.20/README.Fedora or else it doesn't work at all. I'm wondering if there's something we can do to make thi

Re: [Fedora-music-list] jack and /etc/security/limits.conf

2007-01-07 Thread Florin Andrei
Anthony Green wrote: One of the annoying things about running qjackctl on a fresh Fedora install is that you have to remember to edit /etc/security/limits.conf as per /usr/share/doc/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.102.20/README.Fedora or else it doesn't work at all. I'm wondering if there's somethin

Re: [Fedora-music-list] jack and /etc/security/limits.conf

2007-01-07 Thread Anthony Green
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 11:14 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > I was about to say "just let the install scripts do the change in the > background, without asking, and be done with it" but then I remembered > you have to specify the user name(s). > > So, yeah, good idea, no doubt. Just make sure to di

Re: [Fedora-music-list] jack and /etc/security/limits.conf

2007-01-07 Thread Callum Lerwick
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 06:27 -0800, Anthony Green wrote: > I just can't imagine how a new user gets anything running without > stumbling upon that README.Fedora file or searching for help on the web. > > Good idea? Bad idea? Suggestions? We really need to put together a decent "How to get starte

Re: [Fedora-music-list] jack and /etc/security/limits.conf

2007-01-07 Thread Anthony Green
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 15:09 -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote: > Has jack's README.Fedora been changed to recommend a memlock of 131072 > (128mb) or so? 5 is really not enough. No, I don't think so. File a bug I guess. > Not sure how we can do out-of-the-box setup that will be acceptable > distri

Re: [Fedora-music-list] jack and /etc/security/limits.conf

2007-01-07 Thread Florin Andrei
Anthony Green wrote: Oh, I like this idea. So the jack-audio-connection-kit %post would create a jackuser group, and add the following to limits.conf... @jackuser - rtprio 20 @jackuser - memlock 131072 Then we could still have a wrapper around qjackctl to see if the user is a member of the ja

Re: [Fedora-music-list] jack and /etc/security/limits.conf

2007-01-07 Thread Anthony Green
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 15:06 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > > Does that sound right? > > Perfect. I've filed a bug for adding the jackuser group... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221785 AG ___ Fedora-music-list mailing list Fedor