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On 8 Mar 2006, at 13:43, Chris Tribo wrote:

>
> On Mar 8, 2006, at 7:49 AM, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
>
>> - os/x is installed (and in German, a language I don't read well) but
>> the nvram command, odddly, doesn't seem to work.
>
> You have to do sudo nvram foo="bar" or be root which is disabled by  
> default, to get it to change something. Otherwise it will silently  
> fail *shrug*.

The Darwin version?  It fails noisily for me:

leeg@leegion:~>nvram boot-args='-v'
nvram: Error (-1) setting variable - 'boot-args'

I'd noticed your post and was about to look at patching Darwin's  
nvram, but it does report an error.  Maybe emitting some "warning:  
you are not root, stuff might fail" message before the failed attempt  
would be appropriate, still.

Cheers,
Graham.

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