Gnome Warning

[John R. Ghidiu]

happens to everybody (esp. on mondays).

John

> I don't know why I didn't think of that, must have had the brain on
> low...
>
>
> On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 18:03, John R. Ghidiu wrote:
>> If all you need is to not enter a password, look into sudo. its a real
>> nice program that allows you to specify which users can run which
>> programs as root. you can allow su -c to be run as root (from your
>> user), and not ask for a password. I find sudo to be very helpful for
>> a variety of tasks...
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 11:39, Justin Bennett wrote:
>> > I am running XMMS because of the feautres, playlists, streaming
>> > media, and the IRman plugin. I haven't found a command based one
>> > with all the above. Tried doing su -c but It asks for a password
>> > which would needs human input. I'm trying to get it to start xmms as
>> > root at bootup basically. The only was I was able to do this (kinda
>> > hokey) was to create an expect script which ssh's to 127.0.0.1 as
>> > root and runs xmms and displays it on the xconsole. Told you it was
>> > hokey. But doing su -c I need password input which is what I'm
>> > trying to avoid.
>> >
>> > On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 16:49, Gregory J. Neumann wrote:
>> > > Could you script in a command line mp3 player before the X session
>> > > starts and avoid  the problem altogether?
>> > > Is there a compelling reason to have this machine that does not
>> > > appear to be used by  a human being run a GUI at all?
>> > > Or am I missing something here?
>> > >
>> > > -Greg Neumann
>> > >
>> > > > Ok this has probably been asked and answered. Running gnome as
>> > > > root is there a way to remove the error message that your
>> > > > running as root? Other than recompilation :). I have a little
>> > > > laptop running as a mp3 player. For some very odd reason when
>> > > > autologin runs the serial port is owned as root, and my IRMAN IR
>> > > > reciver (for the remote) uses the serial. SO if I want to
>> > > > autologin so it runs XMMS at bootup, and also have access to the
>> > > > Serial port, I need to autologin as root, but then I get the
>> > > > message.
>> > > >
>> > > > Thanks
>> > > > Justin
>> > > >
>> > > > --
>> > > > -------------------------------------------
>> > > > Justin Bennett
>> > > > Red Hat (Linux) Certified Engineer
>> > > > Network Administrator
>> > > > Dynabrade Inc.
>> > > > 8989 Sheridan Dr
>> > > > Clarence, NY 14031
>> > > > 716-631-0100 ext 215
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
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>> > -------------------------------------------
>> > Justin Bennett
>> > Red Hat (Linux) Certified Engineer
>> > Network Administrator
>> > Dynabrade Inc.
>> > 8989 Sheridan Dr
>> > Clarence, NY 14031
>> > 716-631-0100 ext 215
>>
>>
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> --
> -------------------------------------------
> Justin Bennett
> Red Hat (Linux) Certified Engineer
> Network Administrator
> Dynabrade Inc.
> 8989 Sheridan Dr
> Clarence, NY 14031
> 716-631-0100 ext 215