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List:       unison-users
Subject:    Re: [unison-users] Unison GUI not loading, loads text instead
From:       Benjamin Pierce <bcpierce () cis ! upenn ! edu>
Date:       2008-06-14 16:11:44
Message-ID: 4837F8E6-B5DE-4E76-8CB2-72AF69C53BE1 () cis ! upenn ! edu
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Don't know what might be happening with your script, but at least I  
can confirm that Unison does *not* fork a separate process for the  
GUI -- the main process just starts up, has a look at the command  
line, and depending on what it sees either starts the gui or starts  
the text-mode interaction.

    - Benjamin


On Jun 13, 2008, at 4:41 PM, yulmutchuh wrote:
> Hi all~! Running Unison 2.27.57 on SLES 10 SP 1. It's running great.
> Love it. Problem I'm having is I'm trying to create a user object that
> can load the Unison GUI so the department users can check and resolve
> any conflicts that may arise. Needless to say, I didn't give them root
> rights. Instead, I set up sudo to allow them to run a script that
> calls unison with all the proper variables for it to run and to run in
> GUI mode. The script works fine when I run it as root, however when I
> try to run it as the user, it only runs in text mode. It will not load
> the GUI.
>
> My guess is that when you tell unison to launch the GUI, it calls
> another file, and sudo permissions aren't passing root permission over
> to run it? I'm not a linux guru, so that's the only thing I can guess
> at. Anybody know a way around this or how I can get my user to run the
> Unison GUI w/o giving them the root password?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Howard
>
>
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            <p>Don't know what might be happening with your script, but at least I  \
<br> can confirm that Unison does *not* fork a separate process for the  <br>
GUI -- the main process just starts up, has a look at the command  <br>
line, and depending on what it sees either starts the gui or starts  <br>
the text-mode interaction.<br>
<br>
- Benjamin<br>
<br>
On Jun 13, 2008, at 4:41 PM, yulmutchuh wrote:<br>
&gt; Hi all~! Running Unison 2.27.57 on SLES 10 SP 1. It's running great.<br>
&gt; Love it. Problem I'm having is I'm trying to create a user object that<br>
&gt; can load the Unison GUI so the department users can check and resolve<br>
&gt; any conflicts that may arise. Needless to say, I didn't give them root<br>
&gt; rights. Instead, I set up sudo to allow them to run a script that<br>
&gt; calls unison with all the proper variables for it to run and to run in<br>
&gt; GUI mode. The script works fine when I run it as root, however when I<br>
&gt; try to run it as the user, it only runs in text mode. It will not load<br>
&gt; the GUI.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; My guess is that when you tell unison to launch the GUI, it calls<br>
&gt; another file, and sudo permissions aren't passing root permission over<br>
&gt; to run it? I'm not a linux guru, so that's the only thing I can guess<br>
&gt; at. Anybody know a way around this or how I can get my user to run the<br>
&gt; Unison GUI w/o giving them the root password?<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Thanks in advance!<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Howard<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
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