On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:00:00AM +0000, Ward Vandewege wrote: > Hi all, > > ** Debian testing/unstable ** > > I'm having some trouble here with kbdrate. The problem is that on resume from > an apmd suspend, my laptop defaults back to a keyboard repeat rate of 10, and > that is _really_ slow. Manually executing kbdrate -r30 as root solves that > problem. But of course I don't work as root, and it obviously should be > automatable. > > I've tried putting a little script in /etc/apm/event.d called 'kbdrate', that > looks like this: > > #!/bin/bash > # /etc/apm/event.d/kbdrate > > if [ "$1" = "resume" ] ; then > /sbin/kbdrate -r30 -d250 > fi > > But that doesn't do it. > > Also, when executing /sbin/kbdrate as a user, one gets 'Cannot open > /dev/port: permission denied'. I've tried setuid & setguid'ing /dev/port, > doesn't help. > > I've even tried setuid & setguid'ing my little kbdrate script in > /etc/apm/event.d, but that doesn't help either. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks in advance, > Ward.
Setu/giding a shell script doesn't work. You have to setuid the shell which is running the script. And you don't want a so-called "root shell" anywhere on your system! 1) man sudo - for the "proper" way to do it 2) $ cat > kfast.c #include <stdlib.h> int main(void){return(system("/sbin/kbdrate -r30 -d250"));} ^D $ gcc kfast.c -o kfast $ su root # chown root kfast # chmod u+s kfast 3) make /sbin/kbdrate setuid root. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]