Re: why EsounD does not start with /etc/init.d/esound start ?
From: Patrick Ouellette (frizzgrig_at_netscape.net)
Date: 07/30/04
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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 08:08:58 -0400 To: Miernik <miernik@ctnet.pl>
miernik@ctnet.pl wrote:
> Why EsounD is not started with something like /etc/init.d/esound start
> like all other daemons, only it is started as a user logs in, well, in
> fact I don't know very well what starts EsounD, but I have big
> problems with it, it's a mess-up.
I is not a "mess-up". If you are using EsounD in a multiple machine,
multiple user environment (say a University computing lab), the last
thing you want is to have someone send sounds to all the machines (or
one machine).
>
> First of all, I have a machine on which I want to run EsounD, but I do
> not run any Gnome or KDE on it, I don't even have a monitor or
> keyboard connected to that machine. I only log in with ssh, and even
> that I do rarely.
>
> This machine has connected speakers, and what I want to do is to play
> sound over the network from an app running on a different machine on
> that machine. Otherwise I would not want a sound daemon at all.
You can set up your own /etc/init.d/esound script to start it on your
system. Use the skeleton script in /etc/init.d and then use the update
script to place the links to it for the run levels you want to start or
stop the daemon in.
>
> Why don't package EsounD like all other daemons, so that when I do
> aptitude install esound
> everything gets set-up properly and running automagically at each
> bootup from /etc/init.d/esound and that all users can play sound
> through the daemon. I find it really strange that EsounD is run as one
> user, becasue all other users cannot play sound through it then.
If Esound were run as a user (say user esd) that introduces one more
potential security hole, and one more system user to deal with for no
real benefit.
Pat
pouelle@debian.org
frizzgrig@netscape.net
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