mplayerplug-in-devel

[Mplayerplug-in-devel] MPlayerplug-in bug

[Alex B. <ale...@at...>]

Hi, I'd just like to point out a not so serious bug in mplayerplug-in. 
If you run your browser as root (not usually a good idea, but it
happens) and while browsing as root you view a video, the log files in
/tmp have root as their owner.  As it should be.  However, if you then
close your browser and open it as a normal user, when the plugin tries
to initialize it will crash the browser.  This is because it is trying
to erase/write to the log files that it does not have privileges to
access.  Simply rm'ing the files as root and then running the browser as
a normal user solves the problem but it's a hassle.  This isn't a huge
deal, but it's something to be aware of.
--Alex

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Re: [Mplayerplug-in-devel] MPlayerplug-in bug

[Kevin D. <kde...@ya...>]

Alex,

Good catch... I knew that putting logs in /tmp was not a great idea, but =
did=20
not consider this case as I don't run anything other than sysadmin tools =
as=20
root.

I'll finish up on the config file/log file work.

Kevin


On Tuesday 21 January 2003 12:43, Alex Bernson wrote:
> Hi, I'd just like to point out a not so serious bug in mplayerplug-in.
> If you run your browser as root (not usually a good idea, but it
> happens) and while browsing as root you view a video, the log files in
> /tmp have root as their owner.  As it should be.  However, if you then
> close your browser and open it as a normal user, when the plugin tries
> to initialize it will crash the browser.  This is because it is trying
> to erase/write to the log files that it does not have privileges to
> access.  Simply rm'ing the files as root and then running the browser a=
s
> a normal user solves the problem but it's a hassle.  This isn't a huge
> deal, but it's something to be aware of.
> --Alex
>
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> Only the most recently dated keys work

Re: [Mplayerplug-in-devel] MPlayerplug-in bug

[Alex B. <ale...@at...>]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:00:58 -0700
Kevin DeKorte <kde...@ya...> wrote:

> Alex,
> 
> Good catch... I knew that putting logs in /tmp was not a great idea,
> but did not consider this case as I don't run anything other than
> sysadmin tools as root.
An excellent idea, I just did this because I was trying to debug some
other Mozilla problems and so needed root access for a couple of things.
I definitely don't plan on having to run any browser as root on a
regular basis. 
--ALex

Re: [Mplayerplug-in-devel] MPlayerplug-in bug

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Do you plan to set the default reply-to to
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 --- Kevin DeKorte <kde...@ya...> a écrit : > Alex,
> 
> Good catch... I knew that putting logs in /tmp was not a great idea,
> but did 
> not consider this case as I don't run anything other than sysadmin
> tools as 
> root.
Why not delete the logs at browser exit ?

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Re: [Mplayerplug-in-devel] MPlayerplug-in bug

[Kevin D. <kde...@ya...>]

Can't cause we are not called at browser exit...

Better thing to do would be to set the #define DEBUG from 1 to 0, then yo=
u=20
have no logs... It will be set this way in a final release.

Also, I use the logs for post-mortum debugging to see what went wrong...

Kevin

On Tuesday 21 January 2003 13:51, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> Do you plan to set the default reply-to to
> mpl...@li... ?
>  --- Kevin DeKorte <kde...@ya...> a =C3=A9crit : > Alex,
>
> > Good catch... I knew that putting logs in /tmp was not a great idea,
> > but did
> > not consider this case as I don't run anything other than sysadmin
> > tools as
> > root.
>
> Why not delete the logs at browser exit ?
>
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> Sylvain Petreolle
> spe...@us...
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