Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 19:30:44 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu (David E. Cross) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org, dawes@physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes), rich@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xload Message-ID: <199612261830.TAA07065@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199612261808.NAA16462@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> from "David E. Cross" at "Dec 26, 96 01:08:19 pm"
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As David E. Cross wrote: > The xload in the 2.2-Beta distribution needs to be group kmem and set-groupid This is a bug in xload (actually, a known bug in the version as distributed with XFree86 3.2). The package needs to be rebuilt. xload is supposed to use getloadavg(3) (which doesn't require read permission to /dev/kmem), but didn't use it right in that version, so it's #ifdef spagghetti fell through into the generic /dev/kmem-reading part which accidentally works on FreeBSD, too. David or Rich, do you plan to put updated binaries onto the servers with the bug fixed anytime soon? -- 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. ;-)
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