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Date:      Mon, 8 Jan 1996 15:13:36 +0100 (MET)
From:      Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de>
To:        michles@haven.ios.com (Emil Mikhles)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems with top.
Message-ID:  <199601081413.PAA01716@mordillo>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD.3.91.960107210830.11412A-100000@haven.ios.com> from "Emil Mikhles" at Jan 7, 96 09:09:36 pm

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hasn't Emil Mikhles said ? ...
> 
> For some reason, just now, when I execute top, when I am not root I get 
> thiserror message "kvm_open: /dev/mem: Permission denied", any ideas on 
> how to solve this problem?
> thanx
>
do as root (this is the way top is usually installed)
 
chgrp kmem top
chmod g+s top

t
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