Just out of curiosity, if you have access to the root console, is that the same thing as having root access?
Drek J T wrote: > There is a reason why the tty is owned by the user and with specific > permissions. Changing this is basically allowing any user on the system > access to the screen. > > If you do make these changes, there will be security implications. > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Crazy Canucks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > >> I figured out what my problem was. I needed to "screen -r xxx" as the >> user I started the screen as. Anyway, I wrote a simple script that >> chmods /dev/pts/0 to 666 then su's the "screen -r" command. Works >> perfectly. >> >> Had nothing to do with su, as usual with my problems with Linux, it was >> permissions and ignorance.... :) >> >> Drek >> >> Anthal wrote: >> >>> Why not just create a user, like l4d, and run the process from that >>> account. Whenever you need to re-attach, just su to l4d, and 'screen -r >>> $game' (whatever $game may be) >>> >>> Crazy Canucks wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I use su to run screen to run my servers under a different user, and I >>>> nice the process. It works well, but when I do this I am unable to >>>> reattach to the console. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I >>>> could get around this problem? >>>> >>>> These are the relevant lines from my startup script: >>>> >>>> server_command="screen -A -m -d -S $game ./$game"_run" -tos -game $mod >>>> +map `cat ./$mod/starting_map` +maxplayers $server_size -heapsize >>>> $heap_size +ip 192.168.0.101 -pidfile $game.pid >>>> >> -debug$extra_config_options" >> >>>> nice -n -20 su -c "$server_command" cc-server >>>> >>>> It may look a bit complicated, but I think the variable names make it >>>> pretty clear what is going on. >>>> >>>> Drek >>>> >>>> P.S.: I'm a Linux nub, so go easy on me... ;) >>>> >>>> Ronny Schedel wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, i am now using screen to start my server as daemon. >>>>>> But i know that professional hosters uses diferent ways. >>>>>> >>>>>> i have reasons to think that screen is freezing my servers. >>>>>> >>>>>> so... How do you start your server? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> With screen. No, screen does not freeze your servers, plugins do. >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>>>> >> please visit: >> >>>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>>> >> please visit: >> >>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> >> please visit: >> >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux

