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

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Roland Smith wrote:
> 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.

The sound devices are 0666 by default.

>  
>  > 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)

I've never had a problem because GNOME starts it as my user.  I'm very
leery about running a daemon as root that is clearly designed to be run
as a normal user.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
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