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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Subject: Re: conf/3512: xload  does not have proper owner and permissions.
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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
 
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