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Date:      Tue, 9 Sep 1997 09:01:56 +0900 (JST)
From:      Arizona Coyote <coyote@ratbert.aisol.net>
To:        EMANUELE COSTA <e.costa@lancaster.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Xload
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.970909085936.10771A-100000@ratbert>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970908192925.5908B-100000@unixc.lancs.ac.uk>

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Hi,

We had this discussion on the NetBSD list a while ago. Xload does a check
to see if you are root (it's written into the source code).  You can hack
the source if you want.  But I just su to root in an xterm and then do a 

  xload &

It works for me.

Mark

On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, EMANUELE COSTA wrote:

> Hi all,
> 	Could someone tell me how to make xload work under x11?
> 	I've tried to change the ownership group as it was suggested in 
> the man pages, but it's still working only when I access the system from 
> the root account.
> 	Thanks in advance
> 					EMANUELE

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