Rasmus Andersen wrote:

> I get this too. stracing the hddtemp process shows that it tries to
> perform some ioctls on the device and get EACCESS back, probably from
> some uid check in the kernel.

Ah, okay, so the permissions on /dev/hda don't matter
that much.

Understood. Thanks!

> The check itself can probably be found but
> I dont have the time for that now.

Don't worry. I guess I'll have to setuid hddtemp then.

Thanks again,

Alexander Skwar
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