Re: alarms

On 02 Dec 2002 08:00:31 -0500
"Joseph J. McCarthy" <mccarthy@engrng.pitt.edu> wrote:
> Nils:
> Does the new atd run the at jobs as the user that set the job in the
> first place? or are all run as root? This is important because of
> permissions on the sound devs, etc. when an alarm goes off....

This is the security fix I talked about :)
The jobs are now run as the user that registered the alarm. Additionally
some important environment variables are setup correctly. I checked
functionality with gpe-calendar I think and gpe-announce. Both worked
... IIRC :)

> Joe
CU
  nils

> On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 06:26, Philip Blundell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 10:30, Nils Faerber wrote:
> > > >From my point of view, yes!
> > > Though I would recommend to rename libredalert to something more
> > > reasonable ;)
> >
> > Excellent! I'll certainly check out the new atd and have a go. I
> > will also have a go at applying pressure to Russ to incorporate the
> > changes into his "official" atd.
> >
> > As to libredalert, if you have any suggestions for alternative names
> > I'm sure they would be welcomed.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > p.
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> Joseph J. McCarthy, Assistant Professor

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