From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 8 10:30:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA25329 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 May 1996 10:30:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA25317 for ; Wed, 8 May 1996 10:30:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Root.COM (8.7.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id KAA00381; Wed, 8 May 1996 10:30:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199605081730.KAA00381@Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.Root.COM: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Benjamin Tomhave cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update: HELP! In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 May 1996 11:03:14 CDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 10:30:12 -0700 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Some more errors to report are....when trying to do 'w' from any account >other than root I get: /dev/mem: Permission denied. Ok. So, I changed >the permission on that file and then it says /dev/kmem: Permission denied. >Any ideas on that? Probably of lesser important. But, then I ask myself, >what are the permissions on most files in that directory??? I dunno if >they are right. Oh, btw, I have two files, /dev/rsd0.ctl and >/dev/rsd1.ctl. Each one is supposedly 536MB in size, yes I only have a >800MB hard drive. Hello?!? What's up with that??? You sure are having some weird problems. Is /usr/bin/w setgid kmem? Is /dev/mem and /dev/kmem set to group kmem? -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project