On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 rat@telecoma.net wrote:
i want to run pd with rt flag as a user. so i searched the archive on how to do this. besides that there were several solutions regarding chmod - non if these are working for me.?!% at the moment its set to chmod 4755: -rwsr-xr-x 1 spinne spinne 1839956 Oct 4 13:18 pd but i get a: realtime setting failed because not root if it works with -rt, should i get some output on the terminal regarding rt capapilities ?
the u+s flag (4000) doesn't necessarily run something as root. Maybe "man 1 chmod" isn't too clear about it (depending on which OS you use...). It sets the owner of the process to be the owner of the file, which here is "spinne".
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