On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 11:54:23PM -0500, Birt, Jeffrey wrote: > I am assuming that the acpi scripts are run as 'system' (or what ever the > Linux equivelent is) and therefore any DCOP related calls are looking at > the 'systems' DCOP server not the current user. I believe they're executed as root. > So, can I force a script to run as another user? that is have the acpi > script which is being run as 'system' call another script as the current > user? Yes -- use 'su -c' to do this. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 76 degrees Fahrenheit.