Fwd: esd, mpg123, severside playing problem and cause!

Forwarding a post from a non-member because this could be of use to 
some.

Stephane



Begin forwarded message:

> Resent-From: [email protected]
> From: Norman Harman <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat Dec 14, 2002  10:41:39  PM America/Montreal
> Resent-To: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: esd, mpg123, severside playing problem and cause!
>
> hi,
>
> all under Mandrake 9.0
>
> I use esd (enlightenment sound daemon) with mpg123 and apache/netjuke. 
>  esd has some funky permission system that tries and creates/access a 
> ~/.esd_auth file.  But when netjuke attempts to start the serverside 
> player the apache user has no HOME environment variable so it don't 
> work.
>
> I did get it working in a sort of "this is a hack I wouldn't recomend 
> you do the same" sort of way.  Just wanted to put this note out there 
> incase someone else runs into the same situation and perhaps the 
> developers know the 'right' way to fix this.
>
> I added a putenv("HOME=foo") right before the call to mpg123. 
> (/var/www) is the home of apache in my setup.
> This is what I changed exactly.
> in file "admin/jukebox-edit.php"
>
> 	function playWithMPG123($do = 'stop') {
> 	  <<snip>>
> 	  putenv("HOME=/var/www");
> 	  exec(JUKEBOX_PLAYER_PATH.' -q -@ '.escapeshellarg(JUKEBOX_PLIST).' 
> >/dev/null &');
>
> This might not be the wisest most secure thing to do, I don't know.  
> It should proly be somewhere else so it works with whatever player you 
> happen to be using.
>
> netjuke is great, btw, thanks
> norm
>
>
>



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