>
> Thanks.  I was looking at the latest auto_nicdrv_0330.tar.bz2
> and indeed it downloads the latest version of the test suite.
> That is great.  However, as Tom Chen pointed out on the other
> thread, it does appear that the install.ksh script is running
> stf_configure with root permissions.  I am not sure why this
> is necessary -- STF should be able to handle stf_configure
> being run as a non-root user (it does, for every other test
> suite).  Why is it necessary to run stf_configure as root for
> the nicdrv test suite?
>
> -UVR.

Hi Ravindra
In the stf_configure process,NICDRV disable/enable some system services 
and do some
configuration on the peer machine with rsh.
So nicdrv needs users have the root permission.
thanks
-yuan.fan

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