[mythtv-users] how to get root to start mythfrontend

[Paul Andreassen]

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 12:41, Phill Edwards wrote:
> > Why would you want mythfrontend running as root?  Running anything a
> > root is a bad practise to get into.  Just my 2 cents...
> 
> If you look at the mythfrontend log files (and Jarod's guide for that
> matter) they recommend running mythfrontend as root to get higher
> priorities on the processes. However, I think they mean SUID rather
> than actually logging on as root.

The problem is when my machine boots and its not going to record
anything, I want to start the frontend.  MythTV has a script that runs
at boot and is suppose to tell you if the user booted or if nvram-wakeup
did.  I would like to start the frontend from this script but it is
running as root and does have access to X Windows.

Paul