minor bug in libsmbios-0.13.2 rpm

[Michael E Brown]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:05:48PM -0800, Linda W. wrote:
> I ran into a small snag in the rpm.
> 
> At some point there is an attempt to call "scripts/<xxx>.py" a python 
> script.
> 
> It "might" be safer if it was called with "python 
> scripts/<scripname>.py", as
> when the rpm was unpacked into the packages/build dir, they didn't have the
> execute bit set.

I have fixed this for the next release. Thanks. (Next release will be 0.13.4, and I am waiting for some feedback before release.)

> 
> BTW, for what its worth, I tried "lm_sensors" and it doesn't seem to be
> able to find any temp probes for my dell systems. 

:(

> I ran dumpCmos to see if tokens 0xF001 or 0xF00n (or 0xF00[*])
> were present.  They were not.

:(  This means I dont know how to get sensor data for your machine. I can probably bug some people and see if that data is available somewhere that I dont know about.

> I don't think everything is in place for my local libsmbios gen.
> When I use the one installed in the system, I see entries that make
> varying amounts of sense, but the one I generated in the supported-bins
> dir doesn't seem to have any interpretations of the data.

?? Example output please? The dumpCmos program doesnt do any interpretation of the data. It just gives you the raw tokens present on your system. There is also a dumpSmbios program that does something different, and it gives more user-friendly output.

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Michael