Steve Greenland wrote: > On 17-Jul-08, 12:01 (CDT), Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote: >>> I ran: >>> $ pulseaudio -vv --system >> Why do you start it as root? PA is intended to be run as normal user daemon. > > So what is the preferred technique for running PA on a music server box > with (normally) no user logins? Create a user and run it as that. But on a headless box, that's pretty similar to running it as system wide daemon (as it drops privs to a "pulse" user anyway), and in this use case I think it's more or less recommended to run as system process. That said if you are using a music daemon of some sort, pulse 0.9.11 will support autospawning by default and that will become the recommended route (as it will start a pulse daemon as the user of music daemon). Col
