From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp014.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.173.58]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16j5Qw-0003UW-00 for ; Thu, 07 Mar 2002 16:28:19 -0500 Received: from igueths (AUTH login) at h0020780ec921.ne.mediaone.net (HELO OEMCOMPUTER) (igueths@24.62.33.0) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Mar 2002 21:11:57 -0000 Message-ID: <007301c1c61b$9f2fa140$01213e18@OEMCOMPUTER> From: "Igor Gueths" To: References: <20020307100330.A511@uic.edu> Subject: Re: audio galaxy Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:04:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi Greg. I don't mean to put this on the audio galaxy thread, but just = out of curiosity, did you ever get the version for cd creator on the = winBlows box? You can respond privately or on list, it doesn't really = matter. The address is igueths@yahoo.com.=20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Gregory Nowak To: Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:03 AM Subject: Re: audio galaxy > What happened to me when running the satellite as a normal user was = that it didn't share some files. Let's say I had 90 mp3s. Whenever I = started it up, it would say somthing like files scanned: 87 newfiles: 3. = Every time I would start it up again, it would do that, so I just ran it = as root, and it shared everything. Yes, the permissions on all the files = and the shared directory were read and write for the normal user, the = normal user's group, and the world.=20 >=20 > I put my binary in /usr/local/bin, and I put account.txt and = shares.txt in /root/. > Greg >=20 >=20 > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:52:53AM -0500, Darcy Burnard wrote: > > Hi all. I'm curious, for those of you having trouble running = audiogalaxy > > as anything but root, what happens when you try to run it as a = normal > > user? I ask because I've been using the linux audiogalaxy for = something > > like eight months now, and have never had to run it as root. Most = of my > > mp3s are over on my dos partician, and the satellite has never had > > problems sharing these. =20 > > The only problem I've ever had with audiogalaxy is that thing where = it > > said invalid account and deleted the account.txt file. This only = started > > happening a month or so ago, and modifying the account.txt file the = way > > Randy suggested, solved the problem. > > One final question. Where do you guys have the AGSatellite binary > > located? It seems to me I read somewhere that you've got to leave = it in > > your home directory. I just left it in the directory that was = created > > when I untarred the thing. That's also where I've got my = account.txt and > > shares.txt files. > >=20 > >=20 > > On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, randy turner wrote: > >=20 > > >=20 > > >=20 > > > yep i know what you mean, > > > tried to run it as something other than root myself > > > i guess if i was really worried about it > > > i would try fooling with it myself to see if i could > > > run it under something else. > > > it is a little scarry to know that others can grab files from you = on the > > > system > > > so you wonder what else they could do! > > > randy > > >=20 > > > On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > >=20 > > > > Are you running the program as root or as another user? I know = that when I was running it as another user, it didn't want to share a = number of my files even though their permissions were fine. So, I'm = still running it as root. It's a good thing that I have no one else here = who knows gnu/linux, or I would have a big security whole in my = apartment. As it is, I hope that no one from the outside world is able = to crash and exploit the program to gain access to the console on which = it runs. If it could be exploited, then I guess I'm screwed. > > > > Greg > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:32:42PM -0500, Deedra Waters wrote: > > > > > Hear's my problem. I created the account.txt and shares.txt = like the > > > > > readme file said to. I put the directory that I want = downloaded files to > > > > > go to as the first line, and then listed the rest of the = directories that > > > > > I wanted to share after that. The problem is this, when I run = the program > > > > > it says that I'm sharing 0 files. what am I doing wrong? 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