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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VMware and cpu_states on Dell 9300
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 23:07:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060203230732.5ba29693@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602031714.33828.lists@ptfd.org>

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On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:14:33 -0500, Michael W. Holdeman wrote:

> This works but whenever you boot the laptop you have to su to root and
> execute teh chmod again or the state will not be enforced and vmware is
> deathly slow.
> 
> Does anyone here have a better solution??

sudo. Giving root rights for echo might be a bad idea, but you could add
the script to /etc/sudoers, then use su in the script to run vmware
itself as your normal user.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Q. How many mice does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. Only two - but it's difficult to get them in there.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-03 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-03 22:14 [gentoo-user] VMware and cpu_states on Dell 9300 Michael W. Holdeman
2006-02-03 22:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2006-02-03 23:08   ` Michael W. Holdeman
2006-02-03 23:07 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2006-02-04 23:33 ` [gentoo-user] " Richard Fish

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