From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 4 22:24:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA12606 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:24:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA12557 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:24:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA17031; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:24:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:24:26 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Costa Morris cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rdist fixed wierd ps In-Reply-To: <01bd31c3$9e08ea10$0cddcfcf@cman.cortx.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Costa Morris wrote: > i figured ourt what was wrong with rdist. the permissions on the .rhosts > file were 664 instead of 644. sheesh! > > well, i encountered something else strange. unless you were root, you could > NOT run ps -ax on either servers since they were created. it gave you > permission denied. now it does not. anyone can run the command. is this > something i should be concerned about? It should work. Check perms on /proc; mine are 555. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major