Louise Baldwin spake unto us the following wisdom: > 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?
Purple-remote communicates with the running libpurple client via d-bus. You will have to ensure that the sudo'd environment has access to the d-bus session under which the libpurple client is running. There is probably information on how to accomplish this available on the 'net somewhere; I imagine that it will require transporting a number of environment variables from the session to the sudo environment. Ethan _______________________________________________ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: https://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
