su -c /home/Louise/bin/testScript - Louise testScript contains: purple-remote getstatus
output: No existing libpurple instance detected. ----- Original Message ----- From: Tres Finocchiaro Sent: 03/14/14 11:46 AM To: Louise Baldwin Subject: Re: purple-remote vs sudo This is perhaps more of a Linux answer than a Pidgin one, but have you tried su to another user?sudo su Louise http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su_(Unix) -Tres - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Louise Baldwin < louiserbald...@mail.com > wrote:How can I get purple-remote to work through sudo? The scenario is that I have a root cron job which automates several sequential tasks, some of which must be run as the "Louise" user. The other scripts/commands work fine using sudo, but purple-remote getstatus returns "No existing libpurple instance detected" despite that there is in fact an instance of Pidgin running for user "Louise" -- what is causing this discrepancy? _______________________________________________ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: https://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
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