On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Brian Richardson wrote: > well, I have things working, but it's a bit of a hack. > > What I really want to do is launch Perl-Server, running as user nobody, > from my init scripts (I use the Perl-Server extensively in my CGI > development). So, I put together a setuid wrapper to launch the gimp, > but I don't see any way of detaching the gimp process from the > controlling terminal so that I can background it without terminating the > gimp. Any suggestions, or is this a feature which may be added at a > later date? ;) > Try VNC: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ It can keep an entire X-server session running at the background of the computer. You'll need to set the DISPLAY env-var of your CGI scripts in accordance with it, but it should work. Regards, Shlomi Fish > right now I have to leave the setuid wrapper as the last item in my > rc.local and leave the rc.local script running. > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish shlomif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ Home E-mail: shlomif@xxxxxxxxxx A more experienced programmer does not make less bugs. He just realizes what went wrong more quickly.
