[mythtv-users] SUID Root

[Matthew Phillips]

On 26/03/2005, at 12:22 PM, Mario L wrote:

> ..... 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

I believe the app has to invoke real-time prioritizing via an API - 
just running as root doesn't do that.

Have you tried upping the priority with something like "renice -5 
[mythfrontend PID]"?

Matthew