Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 81615
modemlights_applet2 needs read-access to /dev/isdninfo
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: If using gnome's modemlights_applet2 with isdn, modemlights_applet2 requires read-access to /dev/isdninfo to display the network status/throughput etc. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): all How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Use a gnome-desktop on a system connected to the internet via isdn and autodialing. Install gnome's modemlight_applet2 to a gnome-panel. Dial out via isdn. modemlight_applet2 should display the connection status. Actual Results: Modemlights_applet doesn't display the isdn-connection status. Expected Results: Modemlights_applet2 should display the isdn-connection status. Additional info: A rough work-around to this issue is to chmod a+r /dev/isdninfo (This is what I currently do). A more sophisticated approach would be to apply setgid and group tricks to modemlights_applet and /dev/isdninfo.
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