From: Leandro Lucarella <llucax@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 21:59:53 +0000 (-0300)
Subject: Catch exception when trying to write /proc/.../ip_forward in the config file.
X-Git-Url: https://git.llucax.com/software/pymin.git/commitdiff_plain/76e98c925e8fa6bd090c3f4a0af8367457f4e47b

Catch exception when trying to write /proc/.../ip_forward in the config file.

This way pymind can be used by non-root users.
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diff --git a/config.py b/config.py
index 7a9b604..aae79c1 100644
--- a/config.py
+++ b/config.py
@@ -20,9 +20,12 @@ config_path = join(base_path, 'config')
 class Root(Handler):
 
     def __init__(self):
-        f = file("/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward","w")
-        f.write("1")
-        f.close()
+        try:
+            f = file("/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward","w")
+            f.write("1")
+            f.close()
+        except (IOError, OSError), e:
+            print "Can't set ip_forward:", e
         #self.ip.device_up_hook(self.dns)
 
     firewall = FirewallHandler(