Re: audio fails under sudo

2022-12-31 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 3:42 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/30/22 08:13, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > I'd appreciate any suggestions of a workaround for this situation. > > Works fine without the "sudo". It also fails when run in ~root > > > > sudo mpg123 t.mp3 > > Why are you trying to run it with

Re: audio fails under sudo

2022-12-30 Thread Christian Stadelmann
You really really really shouldn't play audio/video under sudo (or browse the web or whatever). Please don't. sudo (as the root account) is meant to be used for system administration only, i.e. stuff like `dnf install blabla` or `vim /etc/[some config file]`. For almost everything else, you

Re: audio fails under sudo

2022-12-30 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On Fri, 30 Dec 2022 11:41:58 -0800 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/30/22 08:13, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > I'd appreciate any suggestions of a workaround for this situation. > > Works fine without the "sudo". It also fails when run in ~root > > > > sudo mpg123 t.mp3 > > Why are you trying to run

Re: audio fails under sudo

2022-12-30 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/30/22 08:13, Geoffrey Leach wrote: I'd appreciate any suggestions of a workaround for this situation. Works fine without the "sudo". It also fails when run in ~root sudo mpg123 t.mp3 Why are you trying to run it with sudo? ___ users mailing

Re: audio fails under sudo

2022-12-30 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On Fri, 30 Dec 2022 08:46:40 -0800 "Doug Herr" wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2022, at 8:13 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > I'd appreciate any suggestions of a workaround for this situation. > > Works fine without the "sudo". It also fails when run in ~root > > > > sudo mpg123 t.mp3 > > I think that is

Re: audio fails under sudo

2022-12-30 Thread Doug Herr
On Fri, Dec 30, 2022, at 8:13 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > I'd appreciate any suggestions of a workaround for this situation. > Works fine without the "sudo". It also fails when run in ~root > > sudo mpg123 t.mp3 I think that is considered a feature and not a bug, but thinking about what is

audio fails under sudo

2022-12-30 Thread Geoffrey Leach
I'd appreciate any suggestions of a workaround for this situation. Works fine without the "sudo". It also fails when run in ~root sudo mpg123 t.mp3 High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3 version 1.31.1; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others