I always understood root access to be user:root, and the root console to literally be keyboard attached to computer viewing output via monitor.
I'm still new to linux myself (3 years and still learning!) though, so I'm probably wrong. mauirixxx -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Crazy Canucks Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 12:22 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] The better way to start hlds as daemon 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 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
