Re: [Freevo-users] Running Freevo automatically as NON-Root

2005-03-23 Thread Carsten Breuer
Hi, i have written a simple programm that starts freevo as a real daemon during startup. This has the advantage, that freevo doesn't block during execution and is ready to use at every time. It runs with all the other daemon like samba, mpd etc. in parallel without any problems and the shell is

[Freevo-users] Running Freevo automatically as NON-Root

2005-03-21 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi All, currently this machine (EPIA-M10K) is being used as a standalone box running Freevo on Gentoo. I've made it such that /etc/init.d/local will start freevo during bootup, as in the settings below. Now, I noticed that it's running as root and I don't quite like that. I need some pointers

Re: [Freevo-users] Running Freevo automatically as NON-Root

2005-03-21 Thread Jaap Struyk
Op di 22-03-2005, om 04:20 schreef Ow Mun Heng: Now, I noticed that it's running as root and I don't quite like that. Try putting 'su - $username -c' before your 'freevo -fs' line. -- Groetjes Japie --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT