Bill Marcum wrote:
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 06:18:47AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
A programming question:
I want to have a program that runs in a user's /home dir. write to /var/run.
That can be done by running the program with sudo.
Is there any other way? E.g. programming with PAM? Example?
Thanks.
Why do you want the program to write to /var/run? Does it require root
privileges other than for that purpose? If not, couldn't you write to
/tmp or the user's home directory?
Thanks for replying. I have a souped up version of vcstime that runs
with colors and sound as a daemon. A client program can talk to it over
a port and adjust the parameters.
But the daemon should only use sound (marine chimes) if there is no fvwm
(my windowmanager) running for any users (I have a multiseat linux,
there can be several users logged on) with similar sounds. So all
.fvw2rc's have an startfunction and exitfunction that make an entry into
/var/run with sudo to indicate that sound is being produced. The daemon
looks at that and decides wether to produce sound or not.
Can anybody write to /tmp? I could only figure out writing to /var/run
with sudo. It gets too complicated with multi-user to check everybody's
home directory.
H
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