Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:24:25 -0800
From: Casey Karp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] linux guru help required (on topic though!)
I'm not a linux expert by any means, but have you tried running it via sudo?
C.
Witty, wise, weird, and wonderful, neil barnes wrote at 01:27 AM 1/29/2002
>Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:21:15
>From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [LIB] linux guru help required (on topic though!)
>
>Thanks,
>
>I'll try that, though afaik I've already done that and the normal apm
>stuff works. This package allows access to the bios so that things like
>screen brightness can be changed on the fly. Having removed the geteuid()
>from the code, so that either root or a user can operate it, it stil works
>fine for root but gives a coredump for the user - which is fair enough,
>given that it's making system calls I guess (depending on some flags in
>the config file, it either goes through a bios gateway or talks directly
>to the cmos ram)
>
>Neil
>
>
>>From: Fran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: Re: [LIB] linux guru help required (on topic though!)
>>Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 20:02:03 -0800
>>
>>Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:57:56 +1300
>>From: Fran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: Re: [LIB] linux guru help required (on topic though!)
>>
>>chmod +s /usr/bin/apm
>>
>>Works for me.
>>
>>Fran
>>:):):)
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 02:52, you wrote:
>> > Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:47:49
>> > From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > Subject: linux guru help required (on topic though!)
>> >
>> > Heya,
>> >
>> > I suspect this one is for Christian or Paul or whoever - it's beyond my
>> > competence.
>> >
>> > I'm playing with the linux bios control at
>> > http://club.pep.ne.jp/~ishioka/Software/Linux/libapm/ and so far have
>> > managed to get the text apm control working - though only as root, which
>> > is a pain. The documentation tells me that as I've installed it, anyone
>> > should be able to run it, but that doesn't work.
>> >
>> > There's also a tcl (I think) script which should give a graphical
>> > interface for X - but it bombs out with an error from the libapm package,
>> > again complaining that only root can use it.
>> >
>> > This looks awfully like a permissions thing...what I'd like to do is set
>> > the libapm to run a root irrespective of user, but I can't find a
>> > way...if I tru setuid or seteuid it doesn't change the uid.
>> >
>> > I'm stuck for a while...any thoughts gratefully accepted!
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Neil (36C - bloody hot today)
>>
>>
>>
>>
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