imwheel & suid

jspaceman · 09-30-2003, 06:06 AM

I am trying to get all the buttons working with my M$ Intellimouse Exploder. I downloaded imwheel but when I try to run it with this command:

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imwheel -k -b "67"

I get an error message:

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ERROR: Couldn't write pid to pid file
Perhaps you want the -p option to avoid this...
Otherwise you may SUID root the imwheel executable.
: Permission denied

I tried to run imwheel with the -p option but it still didn't work. Do I have to 'SUID root' (whatever that means) and if so how do I do it?

jspaceman · 09-30-2003, 06:28 AM

Actually, nevermind the SUID thing. I fixed it without having to change any of that. I just had to type:

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imwheel -k -p -b "67"

and NOT

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imwheel -k -b -p "67"

If you type the second one it will give you an error about "not having a 0 button" or some such thing. You have to put the button numbers (in this case "67") immediately after the -b option, as in the first example.