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On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:48:24PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> But a setuid program *will not solve my problem*.

It does NOT have to be setuid.

su 
echo 'dmidecode > /var/run/dmi' >> /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh

And reboot once (or run the command by hand).

mrc
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fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc
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