ports/114168: [PATCH] audio/esound lacks startup script for esd
Roland Smith
rsmith at xs4all.nl
Thu Aug 23 12:50:06 PDT 2007
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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