security policies? - Re: New DiskMonitoring package

[Brian Sutherland]

Thanks Carl,

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:40:52AM -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> root at curb:~ # /etc/init.d/smartmontools start
> 
> (no output?)

You should check /etc/default/smartmontools to make sure the daemon
starts by default.

> root at curb:~ # DISPLAY=:0.0 smart-notifier
  ^^^^
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/bin/smart-notifier", line 11, in ?
>      smart_notifier.service()
>    File "/usr/share/smart-notifier/smart_notifier/__init__.py", line 72, 
> in service
>      bus=dbus.SystemBus())
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dbus.py", line 244, in __init__
>      dbus_bindings.bus_acquire_service(self._bus.get_connection(), 
> service_name)
>    File "dbus_bindings.pyx", line 1489, in dbus_bindings.bus_acquire_service
> dbus_bindings.DBusException: Connection ":1.5" is not allowed to own the 
> service "smart_notifier.DbusService" due to security policies in the 
> configuration file

Here is a problem, smart-notifier should be run by the user. (I really
should get this to work by default.)

also a "/etc/init.d/dbus-1 restart" before trying anything is a ggod
idea(another thing that should be done automatically).

-- 
Brian Sutherland

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