[PD] udp broadcasting with netsend: permission denied in Linux

[Philip Cunningham]

Maybe PD must be run as root to do this?

Philip

On 3 Apr 2011, at 03:52, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:

>
> broadcast should work with netsend/netreceive in pd 0.43 and I think maybe Pd-extended 0.42.5
>
> .hv
>
> On Mar 31, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've used netsend for broadcasting UDP packets to the local network for years, connecting to 255.255.255.255:5000 (or any other port >1024) and I never had problems under Windows.
>>
>> However in Linux it doesn't work, it doesn't connect. If I run Pd from a terminal, I see this error in the terminal output: "connecting stream socket: Permission denied (13)" (one of the few errors that don't appear in the pd console btw).
>>
>> I remember mentioning this some time ago and being told that it had been fixed, but it seems it isn't.
>>
>> Is there a way to circumvent this and be able to broadcast udp packets with netsend?
>>
>> thanks
>> m.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Pd-list at iem.at mailing list
>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone."  --Bjarne Stroustrup (creator of C++)
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Pd-list at iem.at mailing list
> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list