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/dev/sda PERMISSION DENIED[SOLVED]

Post by NM5TF »

trying to display HDDTEMP in conky using following code:

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${execi 10 hddtemp -n /dev/sda}
no temp is displayed in conky...the error msg says 'dev/sda open permission denied'

when running HDDTEMP in terminal I must use sudo to see the data....

is there a way to disable this so conky will display the data ???

I never had to do this in conky under Ubuntu 12.04.3....I just called HDDTEMP & it worked...

anyone ???

Tommy
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Re: /dev/sda PERMISSION DENIED[SOLVED]

Post by NM5TF »

found the answer in the Ubuntu forums....

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sudo chmod u+s /usr/sbin/hddtemp
at least over there someone usually answers....

Tommy
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