Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 13:40:01 -0700 (PDT) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: conf/3512: xload does not have proper owner and permissions. Message-ID: <199705052040.NAA18401@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/3512; it has been noted by GNATS. From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/3512: xload does not have proper owner and permissions. Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 22:18:00 +0200 As mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx wrote: > >Synopsis: xload does not have proper owner and permissions. It actually has, but the version in the official XFree86 3.2 release is built incorrectly. This incorrect build led to a situation where some `generic' code has been used to determine the load average, as opposed to the getloadavg(3) library call that doesn't require special permissions in FreeBSD. That's why it works if you make the binary setgid kmem. I gonna close this PR since it's an XFree86 bug (and even one that has been fixed later, but there's no more recent XFree86 release available yet). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)help
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