xfce4-sensors-plugin misses the netcat feature
Bug #936473 reported by
Panther
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xfce4-sensors-plugin (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
xfce4-senors-plugin allows hard disk checking with netcat to the hddtemp daemon at localhot:7634. As this seems to be more reliable than checking the hard disk by suid binary, it is a wanted feature.
To enable it:
In the debian/rules files add "--enable-netcat" as such:
override_
In debian/control add "netcat" as a Build-Depends and as a Recommends.
Rebuild the package with "fakeroot debian/rules binary".
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I'm aware of this feature, but the current implementation isn't very good:
* the configure script will try to run "netcat localhost 7634", which will fail on buildds, and so will disable netcat support on ubuntu/debian packages ;
* host & port are hardcoded, so you can't use the plugin if you have hddtemp listening to another port.