ports/114168: [PATCH] audio/esound lacks startup script for esd

[Roland Smith]

The following reply was made to PR ports/114168; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl>
To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/114168: [PATCH] audio/esound lacks startup script for esd
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:45:51 +0200

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 On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 02:27:22PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
 > Esd is designed to be run as the current user, and not as root.  I don't
 > think starting it out of rc.d is a good idea.=20
 
 How does esd gain access to the sound devices when running as a normal
 user? I guess you'd have to give everybody read and write access to the
 devices in question. I'm not sure how that is safer than running esd as roo=
 t.
 
 > What other distributions do this?
 
 I don't know. I just found it inconvenient that it doesn't start
 automatically, like a daemon should (if configured in rc.conf)
 
 Roland
 --=20
 R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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