I run freevo on different diskless computer machines in my house. I use a modified version of the LTSP scripts for bootstrap from a tftp server. I have to modify the scripts to keep LTSP4.2 compatible with newer versions of fedora. I've tried numerous ways to boot freevo automatically, all of which I get to work somehow, but most are usually hacks.
My distro is basically fedora 9 which boots from a central server. The easiest method I've found is to run freevo as root (right or wrong) and start freevo as a server from rc.d/init.d Recently, I inadvertently deleted my freevo filesystem, and lost my backups, losing all my scripts. I've recovered most of my scripts, and repaired my backup processes :-) One thing I haven't restored is my method for automatically starting freevo as a service. For the life of me, I cannot recall how I "hacked" it to work. I cannot explain some behaviour, I'm hoping someone can shed some light. I want to run freevo as "root", however, use an alternate HOME directory (not /root). In my service script, I set HOME before I launch freevo. In a nut-shell I have: #!/bin/bash setenv HOME=/home/'hostname' /usr/bin/freevo start I am expecting that freevo runs with the new HOME directory, but as user root. I believe this is happening, because the log files indicate freevo is finding its local_conf.py in the proper place of /home/(host name)/.freevo/local_conf.py So far, so good. What doesn't happen is when freevo spaws off mplayer. In this situation, mplayer is running with a HOME of /root, not /home/(hostname). I know this because I need to have a proper .asroundrc in /root for my audio to work. I am expecting mplayer to look for .asoundrc in /home/(host name)/.asoundrc. But, I've determined mlayer is using /root/.asoundrc Can anyone explain why mplayer is using a different $HOME than freevo? Thanks, Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
