Since the following commit in the Linux kernel tree
0fdc100bdc4b ethtool: allow non-netadmin to query settings
it is no longer necessary to have the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to query
a device speed using ioctl(..., SIOCETHTOOL) in conjonction with the
ETHTOOL_GSET ethtool command.
The mentioned commit landed first in the 2.6.37 version of the Kernel.
This version is no longer maintained nowdays.
Since it is not necessary anymore, it is strongly prefered from a
security standpoint to drop the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability from the
binary.
Signed-off-by: Olivier Gayot <olivier.gayot@sigexec.com>
Using title number all, this enables aggregates. Note that FreeBSD and
OpenBSD previously only reported aggregates, so this is bringing Linux
and NetBSD that functionality.
Changes the default battery reporting to the aggregate since most
users probably don't care about individual batteries. For single-battery
systems there should be no change.
Fixes one obvious memory leak in NetBSD.
VPN was removed because it pointed to vpnc, which hasn’t been updated
since 2008 and is long obsolete in favor of openconnect. Since different
people use different VPN solutions, though (and other modules configured
by default do actually work regardless of the system), let’s remove this
and have people who need it configure it explicitly.
DHCP was removed because modern systems often don’t use dhclient anymore
(but rather systemd-networkd’s DHCP client, which can also be used via
NetworkManager these days) and because it fails our philosophy test:
it’s not something which you would look at every now and then if
i3status didn’t expose it.
Since we have deterministic device names in Linux, these strings are a
much better default in the i3status config than "eth0" and "wlan0" (what
we used before).
This will make i3status depend on a useful configuration file (so
/etc/i3status.conf has to be installed) to actually output anything.
However, it fixes a very common error: people edit their i3status.conf and
don’t get that the first order directive has to use =, not +=. Since order is
now empty by default, you can use += everywhere.
