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This version is no longer maintained nowdays.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>
"you can chose" -> "you can choose"
"You can either disable the default separator altogether setting it to the empty string." -> " You can also disable the default separator altogether by setting it to the empty string."
Clearly indicate format_up and format_down are used for configuring ethernet
and wireless sections instead of format.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Krizek <tomas.krizek@mailbox.org>
This change addresses the issue #199 asking for multiple CPU support. It
takes an arbitrary CPU number and outputs its usage using the same
arithmetics as for CPU aggregation. It currently doesn't support
FreeBSD.
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.
An empty string becomes the default value for format_not_mounted parameter
for any disk entry. This avoids printing erroneous values when a
filesystem is not mounted.
CPU usage had previously not supported the color option. Add support
for a "degraded" state above which the degraded color is used, and a
higher "bad" state above which the "bad" color is used. One possible
use for these might be indicating whether one or all cores are
saturated.
Unlike the color settings for other, these are set high enough to be
disabled by default. This is done because i3status determines CPU
usage over only the last display interval, which means that, a user
with a low refresh rate might see frequent, potentially-annoying color
changes.
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).
In many public WiFis, the 2.4 GHz wireless band is slow due to
congestion, while there is still plenty of bandwidth available on the
5 GHz area. So when debugging wireless issues it's convenient to have
i3status display the frequency of the access point that the interface is
connected to.
This patch adds support for the %frequency tag for wireless interfaces,
so for example:
format_up = "WLAN: %essid - %quality / %frequency"
would result in:
"WLAN: eduroam - 074% / 2.4 GHz"
