On Friday 17 April 2015 08:45:19 Athanasios Silis wrote: > hi there, > which distro are you using. > if you're using ubuntu* then the fact that it asks for X is related to > you using the jack-dbus. compile a jack version without dbus support > and you'll be fine. > > also the guys are jack-devel mail list have been more than helpful. > apparently to get elevated permission while rc.local is executed you > need to uncomment in /etc/pam.d/su > session required pam_limits.so > > but generally speaking, rc.local is a BAD way to do boot startups in > ubuntu* and this is because ubuntu* set device permissions based on > the *logged > in* user. > It is advised to use the autostart utilities of you desktop > environment, which is what I will do now. Is there a manpage on this desktop autostart? It sounds as if it could alleviate some of the stuff I have to do manually after a reboot, stuff that does need x when it starts. > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Ede Wolf <listac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Great you've asked, I am having the same problem. "su - user" does > > not work, but logging in as user and run the same command does. > > Happens with both, jack and jack2. With jack2 I am also getting an > > error that it can't open X, wenn run from command line. But that > > maybe an issue specific to the jack2 version of arch, as there is no > > reason why jackd should need a display. > > > > Am 17.04.2015 um 11:40 schrieb Athanasios Silis: > >> Hi all, > >> I am trying to run jackd instance from /etc/rc.local (along with a > >> few other applications) from a custom made init script. > >> > >> The system is ubuntustudio and I have setup everything to have > >> elevated permissions when executing applications from the @audio > >> group. > >> > >> so when I am logged on, I see this: > >> nass@starkill:~$ ulimit -r -l > >> real-time priority (-r) 95 > >> max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited > >> > >> which is expected and I can execute the script I wrote. > >> > >> but, when I execute my script from /etc/rc.local as > >> su - nass -c "ulimits -r -l cd audio_setup/scripts ; bash > >> ./start_audio" then my user does not (yet?) have elevated > >> permissions. > >> > >> real-time priority (-r) 0 > >> max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64 > >> > >> is there a script I can run before my start_audio script to elevate > >> my permissions? > >> > >> thank you > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Linux-audio-user mailing list > >> Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-audio-user mailing list > > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
