It all depends on the installation of the sox and flac binaries. They could have been installed with setuid root, which means that whoever runs the binary it's always executed as user root. This behaviour can be changed by issueing 'chmod -s <binary>'.
Maybe certain linux distributions install sox and flac this way to allow them access to for instance /dev/dsp in order to use the soundcard? If you are only doing transcoding before sending it off on the network again then you obviously don't need access to a soundcard! Regards, Koen. -- koen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ koen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2417 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18561 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
