Re: Perl Prog as Root

Tom,

Try this link...

http://www.losurs.org/docs/tips/x11/root-x

Mike

At 11:28 AM 12/16/2004, Michael van Nieuwenhuize wrote:
>Tom,
>
>You can also use xauth. Be careful with xhost as you can open you machine up
>to outsiders if you don't know what you are doing. I had a similar problem 
>many moons
>ago when I was trying to bring up a tk app as root. Don't remember full 
>solution but I used
>xauth. I basically googled for xlib warning generated by firing up tk app. 
>This gave me many
>things to try. So you might want to do the same.
>
>Regards,
>
>Mike
>
>At 10:45 AM 12/16/2004, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
>>On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:33:53AM -0600, Browder, Tom wrote:
>> > I have written a small script that works when run as as a normal user on
>> > Linux system.
>> >
>> > It starts up and is put into the background during the login process and
>> > is killed when the user logs out.  It monitors mounting external devices
>> > and pops a modal window as a mount/unmount event happens.  I requires
>> > the user to dismiss the window with a push button after it appears.  The
>> > program works fine this way.  I execute it for a user by putting this
>> > line as the last line in the /etc/csh.cshrc file:
>> >
>> >   /etc/mybackgroundscript.pl &
>> >
>> > I would like to run the process as a single one root by putting the
>> > following as the last line in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file:
>> >
>> >   /etc/mybackgroundscript.pl &
>> >
>> > I doesn't work apparently because the prog cannot get access to the X
>> > server when it needs to pop up a window with another user logged in.
>> >
>> > Does anyone have an idea?  Is the root/background/window method
>> > workable?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > Tom Browder
>>
>>I think the user needs to run "xhost localhost" to give root
>>permission to access his X server.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>--
>>Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
>>[email protected]  http://www.bobcatos.com
>>Grace happens.
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