I wanted to read the battery power draw in watts


I have read numerous webpages and settled on adding the script to sudoers.

So I created a file, "panel", in /etc/sudoers.d which reads

Cmnd_Alias PANEL = /usr/local/bin/panel.sh
ALL ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD:PANEL
Defaults!PANEL !requiretty

I have tried a few variations of the above, this is the current one.

The script has a few lines like
AMPS=$(cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/current_now)

Before I had sudo cat, and it worked, but only if I entered my password. Obviously I need to get rid of the password requirement for genmon.

So I just removed the sudo command from the script but now it just returns 0.

I've obviously stepped into a hole somewhere but I can't find the answer.

Anyone got any ideas????

Never mind I'm an idiot. It works I just had the power plugged in. How do I delete this?

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