What happened to me when running the satellite as a normal user was that it didn't share some files. Let's say I had 90 mp3s. Whenever I started it up, it would say somthing like files scanned: 87 newfiles: 3. Every time I would start it up again, it would do that, so I just ran it as root, and it shared everything. Yes, the permissions on all the files and the shared directory were read and write for the normal user, the normal user's group, and the world. I put my binary in /usr/local/bin, and I put account.txt and shares.txt in /root/. Greg On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:52:53AM -0500, Darcy Burnard wrote: > Hi all. I'm curious, for those of you having trouble running audiogalaxy > as anything but root, what happens when you try to run it as a normal > user? I ask because I've been using the linux audiogalaxy for something > like eight months now, and have never had to run it as root. Most of my > mp3s are over on my dos partician, and the satellite has never had > problems sharing these. > The only problem I've ever had with audiogalaxy is that thing where it > said invalid account and deleted the account.txt file. This only started > happening a month or so ago, and modifying the account.txt file the way > Randy suggested, solved the problem. > One final question. Where do you guys have the AGSatellite binary > located? It seems to me I read somewhere that you've got to leave it in > your home directory. I just left it in the directory that was created > when I untarred the thing. That's also where I've got my account.txt and > shares.txt files. > > > On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, randy turner wrote: > > > > > > > yep i know what you mean, > > tried to run it as something other than root myself > > i guess if i was really worried about it > > i would try fooling with it myself to see if i could > > run it under something else. > > it is a little scarry to know that others can grab files from you on the > > system > > so you wonder what else they could do! > > randy > > > > On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > > > Are you running the program as root or as another user? I know that when I was running it as another user, it didn't want to share a number of my files even though their permissions were fine. So, I'm still running it as root. It's a good thing that I have no one else here who knows gnu/linux, or I would have a big security whole in my apartment. As it is, I hope that no one from the outside world is able to crash and exploit the program to gain access to the console on which it runs. If it could be exploited, then I guess I'm screwed. > > > Greg > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:32:42PM -0500, Deedra Waters wrote: > > > > Hear's my problem. I created the account.txt and shares.txt like the > > > > readme file said to. I put the directory that I want downloaded files to > > > > go to as the first line, and then listed the rest of the directories that > > > > I wanted to share after that. The problem is this, when I run the program > > > > it says that I'm sharing 0 files. what am I doing wrong? I should be > > > > sharing some 500 files:p > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
