Hey, I've got the same thing set up. Here's the steps:
1. become root
2. in roots home directory open the file ~/.bash_logout with the text editor
of your choice
3. add the line imwheel -k
4. save the file
This should kill the imwheel process that belongs to root as you log out of
root which will make the imwheel.pid file that belongs to root go away. When
you log in as yourself, imwheel will either start again automatically or you
may have to add an imwheel run command to your autostart folder.
This is a sort of quick and dirty answer to this problem that my sister Dacia
worked out and shared with me. I'm sure there is a better way. I'm just not
experienced enough to know it.
Abe
>===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =====
>On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote:
>> I had this problem and I just put imwheel -k in roots
>> bash logout file in root's home directory. Not pretty
>> I guess but it works.
>>
>> Dacia
>
>I thought there would be solution like that. How exactly do you do that. I
>found roots bash logout file. All it contains is:
>
># ~/.bash_logout
>
>clear
>
>
>What "exactly" do you put in that file and where? This is a newbie here!
>
>Thanks
>
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>Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Registered Linux User 348854
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>> --- Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > This is very basic but I am having trouble figuring
>> > it out.
>> >
>> > There is a program called imwheel that produces a
>> > file called
>> > /tmp/imwheel.pid. If I start it as a user I can
>> > overwrite imwheel.pid
>> > (which I need to do at boot up). If I happen to
>> > start imwheel as root, when
>> > I boot again as a user, I cannot overwrite the
>> > imwheel.pid produced by root
>> > unless I become su to delete it first.
>> >
>> > Is there a way to force imwheel to produce an
>> > imwheel.pid that can be
>> > overwritten by any user? How?
>> >
>> > Thank you.
>> >
>> > Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > Registered Linux user 183185
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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>Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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