Battery indicator on iBook 500?

[thayne]

Cool thanks! The theory was a nice add-on :)



On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 22:44, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, at 01:22  AM, thayne wrote:
> 
> > Okay I have kdeutils-laptop installed, but in the kde control panel it
> > says I have to make /usr/bin/apm setuid, but I cannot find what the
> > correct command is. Does anyone know?  It works fine when logged in as
> > root, but as a normal user it doesn't.
> >
> > Thanks
> 
> 	Simple:
> 
> [PowerBook:~] juan% su -
> Password:
> [PowerBook:~] root# chmod u+s /usr/bin/apm
> 
> 	A little theory is in order, I suppose: what you are doing here is 
> telling the system to allow any user to execute the specified command; 
> how does it do that, you may ask, by a sort of short lived invocation of 
> the root user which just executes the command for you. So, in short, 
> it's really root who executes the command when the shell invokes it 
> after you hit enter. The "setuid" bit allows this.
> 
> 	For more information read the man page for chmod. Regards,...
> 
> 
> 		Juan.
> 
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