need help with some premissions in ubuntu.....I think

[mcveigh]

I am pretty happy with ubuntu on my thinkpad.
I drifted away from Linux for about 4 years and am trying to remember some things.

I have a program called tpb installed that I want to run whenever someone is logged in.
it needs to run as ?pb-d I can do this as sudo when I login but I don´t want to.
it´s a program to give a volume and brightness pop-up display when I use the thinkpad buttons to change them. is it /etc/init.d I need to modify?

I also use a USB EVDO wireless card a lot.
I use it by opening a terminal and just running sudo wvdial

gnome-ppp can run if I launch it from the terminal as root. but a regular user cant run the ppp daemon.
I changed ownership on ppp and it didn´t help.

any help or tips are appreciated!!!!!

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Originally posted by: mcveigh
I have a program called tpb installed that I want to run whenever someone is logged in.
it needs to run as ?pb-d I can do this as sudo when I login but I don´t want to.
it´s a program to give a volume and brightness pop-up display when I use the thinkpad buttons to change them. is it /etc/init.d I need to modify?

Look at gnome-session-properties under the Startup tab and see if that will do what you want.

 

[mcveigh]

I tried adding tpb -d to it and it won´t run when I login🙁

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Here is a tutorial for getting it working in SUSE, also using gnome-session-properties. You should be able to adapt it to Ubuntu.