Re: FIXED Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice)
About 30 seconds after I finally sent this, I found the answer. It's always a matter of phrasing the Google search correctly: $ xhost +local:local non-network local connections being added to access control list $ su Password: bsd# /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale en_US bsd# ... and it worked. xhosts refers to networks not usernames. You run it as a normal user, then switch to su, then execute the command. I found the answer here: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-xfree86/2004-Feb/0028.html Sounds like a really insecure thing for a sysadmin to do, though. I'm just the only user of a home machine. Sorry for using up list space, but perhaps this might help someone else down the line. Oliver On Thursday 06 April 2006 18:08, Oliver Iberien wrote: In order to set the printer setting for openoffice.org-2.0.2 I have to, as far as I know, run the program /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin as root. (The default settings are for lp and I am using cups.) It's a series of dialogs in windows and so I've tried to set the display. I get a no protocol specified error. bsd# setenv DISPLAY :0.0 bsd# /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale en_US Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin.bin X11 error: Can't open display: :0.0 Set DISPLAY environment variable, use -display option or check permissions of your X-Server (See man X resp. man xhost for details) I looked at the xhost page and tried: bsd# xhost +root Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified The same thing happened with xhost +. What am I missing? Oliver PS Using sudo does not work as for some reason when I try to run spadmin with sudo, spadmin can't find libraries it needs that are in its own folder. su-ing gets the same result as running as root, and deleting ~/.openoffice.org-2.0.2 and running spadmin as a normal user changes nothing -- apparently nothing printer-related is in there. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FIXED Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice)
Oliver Iberien wrote: About 30 seconds after I finally sent this, I found the answer. It's always a matter of phrasing the Google search correctly: $ xhost +local:local non-network local connections being added to access control list $ su Password: bsd# /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale en_US bsd# ... and it worked. xhosts refers to networks not usernames. You run it as a normal user, then switch to su, then execute the command. I found the answer here: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-xfree86/2004-Feb/0028.html Sounds like a really insecure thing for a sysadmin to do, though. I'm just the only user of a home machine. Sorry for using up list space, but perhaps this might help someone else down the line. Oliver On Thursday 06 April 2006 18:08, Oliver Iberien wrote: In order to set the printer setting for openoffice.org-2.0.2 I have to, as far as I know, run the program /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin as root. (The default settings are for lp and I am using cups.) It's a series of dialogs in windows and so I've tried to set the display. I get a no protocol specified error. bsd# setenv DISPLAY :0.0 bsd# /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale en_US Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin.bin X11 error: Can't open display: :0.0 Set DISPLAY environment variable, use -display option or check permissions of your X-Server (See man X resp. man xhost for details) I looked at the xhost page and tried: bsd# xhost +root Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified The same thing happened with xhost +. What am I missing? Oliver PS Using sudo does not work as for some reason when I try to run spadmin with sudo, spadmin can't find libraries it needs that are in its own folder. su-ing gets the same result as running as root, and deleting ~/.openoffice.org-2.0.2 and running spadmin as a normal user changes nothing -- apparently nothing printer-related is in there Sorry, guess I should have kept reading. Looks like I misunderstood the problem -- Duane Whitty ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
