On 2011-03-10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Liam O'Toole <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:32:34 +0000 (UTC)
>> ... script to be placed somewhere in the user's path
>> such that it won't get clobbered by an official Debian package.
>> /usr/local/bin is the place to be.
>
> Right oh; this trivial script works.
>
> peter@dalton:~$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/skype
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 67 Mar 9 18:26 /usr/local/bin/skype
> peter@dalton:~$ cat /usr/local/bin/skype
> #!/bin/sh
> LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype
>
> I didn't succeed in using "exec ..." and the script process
> continues along with skype. Is there a way to preload the
> module, start skype, terminate the script and leave skype
> running?
This should do it:
#!/bin/sh
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so
exec /usr/bin/skype
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Liam O'Toole
Cork, Ireland
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