sensors only as root?

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Very strange.
Haven't heard this one before.
You can check the permissions on /proc/sys/dev/sensors contents.
You can also try 'strace sensors' to try and see what's failing.
Most of the accesses are via sysctl calls.

Dave Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've had a look through the docs / FAQ, but can't find the answer to my 
> question.
> 
> I've just set up lmsensors-2.7.0 on my machine, but I can only run sensors as 
> root.  I'm using the it87 module, and have also loaded i2c-proc, -dev and 
> -isa.  I have chmod'ed /dev/i2c0 and /dev/i2c-0 to be read/writable as my 
> non-root users, but I still only get "No sensors found!" when I run sensors 
> as a user other than root.
> 
> Can you tell me what permissions I may have to change in order to run sensors 
> as non-root users.  My other machine can do this with no problems, although 
> that uses different drivers, etc., plus I set it up 2 years ago and can't 
> remember if I needed to change any permissions on it to get it to work 
> properly.
> 
> Cheers,
> --Dave
> 
> 



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