hp-systray cannot be run as root - help
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From: invalid on 9 Apr 2008 18:17 Is there anyway around not being able to run hp-systray as root? Running Slackware-Current, HPLIP 2.8.4
From: Dave Uhring on 9 Apr 2008 18:58 On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:17:16 +0000, invalid wrote: > Is there anyway around not being able to run hp-systray as root? > > Running Slackware-Current, HPLIP 2.8.4 Perhaps because you did 'su -' instead of 'su'? Or should this just be a guessing game? Do you not have enough sense to post the error message?
From: invalid on 9 Apr 2008 19:17 On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:58:05 -0500, Dave Uhring wrote: > On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:17:16 +0000, invalid wrote: > >> Is there anyway around not being able to run hp-systray as root? >> >> Running Slackware-Current, HPLIP 2.8.4 > > Perhaps because you did 'su -' instead of 'su'? > > Or should this just be a guessing game? Do you not have enough sense to > post the error message? HUH? I'm running as root and not as a user, so su is not the issue here.
From: Dave Uhring on 9 Apr 2008 19:30 On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:17:13 +0000, invalid wrote: > On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:58:05 -0500, Dave Uhring wrote: > >> On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:17:16 +0000, invalid wrote: >> >>> Is there anyway around not being able to run hp-systray as root? >>> >>> Running Slackware-Current, HPLIP 2.8.4 >> >> Perhaps because you did 'su -' instead of 'su'? >> >> Or should this just be a guessing game? Do you not have enough sense >> to post the error message? > > HUH? I'm running as root and not as a user, so su is not the issue here. Are you going to post the error message or not?
From: No_One on 9 Apr 2008 19:48
On 2008-04-09, invalid <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:58:05 -0500, Dave Uhring wrote: > >> On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:17:16 +0000, invalid wrote: >> >>> Is there anyway around not being able to run hp-systray as root? >>> >>> Running Slackware-Current, HPLIP 2.8.4 >> >> Perhaps because you did 'su -' instead of 'su'? >> >> Or should this just be a guessing game? Do you not have enough sense to >> post the error message? > > HUH? I'm running as root and not as a user, so su is not the issue here. It seems from the script that the systray cannot be run as root: if os.getuid() == 0: log.error("hp-systray cannot be run as root. Exiting.") sys.exit(1) if you grep the scripts for root, you'll find a numbers of instances of root barred from some actions, most actions. ken |