Re^2: Sharing Sound card / Remote Media PC.

Thank you, that sounds right. But...

I have added the "nobody" id and the "apache" id to the group "audio" which owns /dev/audio (which is a link to /dev/sound/audio, which is owned by root.) But it seems to make no difference.

I can play my script from the command line, either locally or through ssh, but not through a web form. (useless web form below).

mplayer is running, I can see the feedback on the web browser, but no sound.

<html>
        <head>
                <title>
                        Test file
                </title>
        </head>
        <body>
                <h1>Test file</h1>
                <p>test data
                <form action="/cgi-bin/PlayPod.pl">
                        <input type="submit" value="play pod">
                </form>

        </body>
</html>
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Re^3: Sharing Sound card / Remote Media PC. by erroneousBollock (Curate) on Nov 15, 2007 at 16:48 UTC
Two things: Are you sure the webserver is running as `nobody`? Does `PlayPod.pl` know how to start the music and give control back to the initiating terminal (in this case the web-server via `fork`) ? -David	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Sharing Sound card / Remote Media PC. by SkipHuffman (Monk) on Nov 15, 2007 at 16:55 UTC
Figured it out. I needed to restart the web server(rebooted actually) before it recognized the new group assignments. I am expecting use of "system" should allow control to be retained by the web server. It does play the sound file to completion, or if I hit the back button, the file is interrupted. I think the web server actually runs as "apache", but I think it may run cgi as "nobody". Skip	[reply] [d/l]