Re: Running oro-applications not as root

Quoting Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> just for curiosity, why have I to run the orocos applications as root and not
> as a normal user?

This is not forced  by Orocos itself, but by the underlying Real-Time OS. Both
RTAI and Xenomai require that real-time apps run as root. The RTT checks this
upon startup for these OS'es.

You can try 'sudo' to start only the application in real-time without 
logging in as root.

Peter
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