[gst-devel] remote control

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 13:04 +0100, Axel Huizinga wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Trying to access gstreamer (perl binding) via remote control over cgi
> fails with:
> 
> ibgnomevfs-WARNING **: Unable to create ~/.gnome2 directory: Permission
> denied
> 
> GStreamer-WARNING **: Problem writing registry cache to
> /sbin/.gstreamer-0.10/registry.x86_64.xml: No such file or directory
> 
> while the script runs as expected on the console.
> Can anybody give me a hint how to tell gnome to work in a cgi environment?

don't use /sbin as a home directory for your cgi user, and give it a
writable home directory.

Arguably, GStreamer should be able to still work somehow even if it
can't write to the home directory.  Does the script actually fail after
this ?

Thomas