Thanks Stefano; It now works. On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 20:16 +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote: > Hi William. > > On Friday 2006-12-01 11:15:33 -0500, William Case wrote: > > Tried: > > Nothing shows up on my desktop. > > How did you try it? Wrote it as a script in a file called RootBrowser. Changed the permissions to executable by bill (as usual). I have bill's PATH including $HOME/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts. Tried .RootBrowser from the command line. It worked but gave me the last two lines as returns for the gterm. Tried it as a single command line. It worked as above. > If you wrote it in a file and then launched it > get sure to put in the first line > #! /usr/bin/bash I did that. > and to change permission of the file (it has to be executable at least > by you). > I did that. > I'm trying this script and it works both as a script launched from > gnome-terminal and when it's called by a gnome-panel launcher: > > #! /bin/bash > > # this forces the password typing, even in the case the sudo timeout has > # not yet expired > sudo -k Didn't use sudo -k but it makes sense as a precaution > > zenity --entry --title="Browse files as root" --text="Enter your password:" --hide-text \ > | sudo -S nautilus --no-desktop --browser 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null > Knew I probably wanted to background or /dev/null return variabless 1 & 2 above but wasn't sure how to go about it. Had read some manuals about file descriptors but have never need to use them, so didn't know how to use 1 & 2 to send the lines /dev/null. Tried things that were far too complex that obviously didn't work. So, thanks that was the solution I needed. > if [ "$?" != 0 ]; then > zenity --error --text="Sorry, bad password" > return 1 > fi Essentially did that. Knew to do it but hadn't written it yet trying to keep the number of possible complications down until the rest worked. > > What do I do with these two lines? > > Anything you want to do with them ;-). If you don't like this output > you can simply send it to /dev/null (as in the above script). sudo > prints the "password:" prompt on stderr (file descriptor number 2), > nautilus writes on both stderr and stdin (file descriptor number > 1). If you are running the script through a launcher the output will > be happily ignored. > Thanks for the explanation. I'll go back and 'man' for your kind of comments if I have further questions. > HTH > > Ciao! > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list -- Regards Bill _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
