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Date:      Wed, 8 May 1996 15:18:43 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Benjamin Tomhave <tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu>
To:        David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Update: HELP! 
Message-ID:  <Pine.HPP.3.92.960508151818.27699A-100000@martin.luther.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199605081730.KAA00381@Root.COM>

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On Wed, 8 May 1996, David Greenman wrote:

> >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?
>
Yep...this is all ok...........???? *sigh*

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