Re: gkrellmd question

On Thursday 14 January 2010, you wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:20:47 -0500
> Rio <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > no i dont run as root. i was running the remote monitors as root. why i do not 
remember 
> > but not any longer they all run as my desktop user. gkrellmd runs as user gkrellmd
> 
> Then does user gkrellmd have permission to open the X server display?
> I put up a new tarball that now looks at stderr from the nvidia-settings command
> so if it is a permission problem, we should get some indication now:
> 
> So, either run gkrellmd as your desktop user and see what you get or
> try the new tarball and run "gkrellmd -d 0x80" as before.
> 
>     http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/test/gkrellm.tar.bz2
> 
> Bill
> 

it is not only the user specified in gkrellmd.conf but it is something to do with our 
start/stop init system!  when started by the init.d script it runs as the proper user 
however it still does not see the video stuff. when i run it manually it sees the vid 
stuff fine as root or my desktop user, so i guess ill run it from local.start using 
gkrellmd & and use killall in local.stop since i apparently cannot use the init system.
i never tried this before all my upgrades because i never needed it, but since the system 
and kde upgrade things have been weird.

im a 'if it aint broke dont fix it' kinda mentality, but when not updating for the sake of 
updating starts causing trouble where i install something and the dependencies upgrade 
requirement list gets to be almost as large as my world file its time to update 
everything.. after all it was a bit more than a year since my last system update.

thanks for the help. showed up lots a  things i would not have thought of since it all 
worked fine before and i have never had an init problem.


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