Re: SUDO

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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On 12/04/07 00:51, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:11:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:27:14PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>> On 12/03/07 21:22, Michael Pobega wrote:
>>>>> Actually I think the problem is that I'm trying to initialize the
>>>>> framebuffer from within Screen; Is there any way to pass the permissions
>>>>> to Screen?
>>>> Ah.  I doubt it, since /screen/ probably does squirrelly stuff.
>> Grant privs to fb0 *before* you start /screen/?  With udev, maybe?
> 
> I dubt that simple premission stuff would solve the issue. Even if you
> log in in console as root and start screen, then framebuffer programs do
> NOT work (but svgalib programs do work on achitectures that have it).
> For example, fbgs says:
> 
> ioctl VT_GETSTATE: Invalid argument (not a linux console?)

Good point.

> I also dubt that udev will ever be able to do anything useful, but I
> cannot be sure since for my good luck I do not use it.

udev is very important to modern SCSI-heavy kernels, since the SCSI
subsystem has always had the irksome habit of renaming existing
devices if a new devices is added.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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