Gnome Warning

[Darin Perusich]

if you want to run the app as another user, when your logged in as root 
do su nobody -c 'command'. this will effectivly run "command" as user 
nobody.

John R. Ghidiu wrote:
> Is it possible to su before you run the script? Or even put it in the
> script?
> 
> John
> 
> 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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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com