'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 23/04/09 11:02 did gyre and gimble: > To add-on to the above topic. > > I've mentioned earlier in my initial mail that my /tmp folder contains > two different pulse-XXXX directories. My googling has revealed that it > seems the XXXX should be my username, but as far as I've observed, that > does not seem to be the case in my install, could that be the source of > the problem? No, the information you found is outdated. Using a username can lead to other users doing a kind of DoS (Denial of Sound!) attack by creating a file owned by themselves with your username in it. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
