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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Grant Sewell wrote: > Hi all, > > I have recently come across "NetworkManager" and it's KDE frontend > (knetworkmanager). It looks very promising... but I am having one > little problem with it. I have no doubt that it's gonna be really quite > easy to solve, I'm just being a bit thick lately. > > If I run "$su -c knetworkmanager", then it fires up fine, drops itself > into the KDE System Tray nicely and works a treat. If I try to run it > as a normal user, it fires up fine, drops itself into the KDE System > Tray and does nothing. It fails to see the network devices so it won't > detect any wireless networks, etc, etc. > > I have tried making knetworkmanager SUID root, but when I run it I get: > The KDE libraries are not designed to run with suid privileges. > ERROR: Communication problem with knetworkmanager, it probably crashed. > > > Ideally I would like knetworkmanager to start on KDE startup, but just > getting it to work nicely as a normal user would be a start! Anyone got > any nice suggestions? > > Cheers. > Grant. > write a wrapper script ? - -- Neil Stone Systems Administrator FlashTek UK - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT d+(++) s: a-(?) C++++(--) UL++++$ P+ L+++ E- W+++ N+ o+ w--- O M PS+ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5+ X+ R+ tv+ b- DI++ D+++ G e h--- r+++ y++++(**) - -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE0nffz3Av8JKgzxQRAl5RAJ4kfJn0yu+lthpsKrxjMRm1bnQNlACeP6/p /96RjSsLcXA1pUDHEYGPfD8= =AtvM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html