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To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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Subject: Re: A little tk program 
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> In message <199711100320.NAA00665@word.smith.net.au> Mike Smith writes:
> : > P.S. You need to run this as root, or have apm be setuid root.
> : 
> : Er, I don't think so.  Certainly, apm will give me power status as 
> : non-root.
> 
> Doesn't for me.  I got permission failed before I made apm setuid
> root.

/dev/apm is 0660 root.operator.  I'm in operator, so it works for me.  
Generally if you're on the console on a laptop you want to be in 
operator so you can 'shutdown -h now'.

mike