the reason why it has the "su" in there is to run the mmserver as a nonpriveleged user instead of root. So, it is supposed to switch to that account when it launches mmserver...so, I can see why it would ask for a password if you aren't root to start with when you are playing around with it on the command line.
I'm kinda of a linux newbie too but as I understand it all the scripts in your /etc/init.d are run by root during bootup. Actually, I think the symlinks that are found in your /etc/rc*.d are run based on the runlevel. Maybe there isn't a symlink in your /etc/rc*.d folder prompting it to run at start? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBootupHowto so, no, you shouldn't have to enable the root login, it was just a way to see if it worked for you that way or not. 2 other things come to mind: 1) I also installed BUM to make sure that mmserver started before squeezecenter (just like in that wiki article I linked before) 2) the reason I had to switch to "nohup su" was because with 9.04 Ubuntu is moving away from the /etc/init.d method to something else, supposedly. They talk about it in that link above. Maybe on a fresh install it just doesn't work anymore and I got lucky with the upgrade? Anyway, it sounds like I'm just leading you on a wild goose chase -- maybe someone with more ubuntu knowledge can jump in and solve it better than me! -- the_arm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ the_arm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9891 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66953 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
