On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 11:54:23PM -0500, Birt, Jeffrey wrote:
I am assuming that the acpi scripts are run as 'system' (or
what ever the
Linux equivelent is) and therefore any DCOP related calls are looking at
the 'systems' DCOP server not the current user.
I believe they're executed as root.
So, can I force a script to run as another user? that is have the
acpi
script which is being run as 'system' call another script as the current
user?
Yes -- use 'su -c' to do this.
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