[mythtv-users] SUID Root

[Mario L]

..... and here i have been going tried running as different users,
with tons of different permissions.  Is there a way to run it with
sudo then?

When I try, I get:

supermario at portablemario ~ $ sudo mythfrontend
mythfrontend: cannot connect to X server


On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:18:46 +1030, Matthew Phillips <mythtv at mattp.name> wrote:
> On 26/03/2005, at 12:03 PM, Mario L wrote:
> 
> > I have been trying to make mythfrontend run as SUID root, but can't
> > seem to have much luck.
> > I have already done chmod a+s /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend, but still
> > when I launch, I get interruptions when the computer runs an apache
> > request and I still see it using usleep in the term
> 
> Yeah, I spent some time trying to fix that too. Only to find out that
> the real-time feature has been disabled in 0.17 due to it causing
> instability on some boxes. The checkbox is still there though, just to
> keep you confused :/
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Matthew.
> 
> 
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