Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 17:05:57 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A little tk program Message-ID: <199711100635.RAA01738@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Nov 1997 23:28:16 PDT." <199711100628.XAA25538@harmony.village.org>
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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
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