From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 9 03:21:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA29222 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 03:21:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail11.digital.com (mail11.digital.com [192.208.46.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA29216 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 03:21:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cssmuc.frt.dec.com (cssmuc.frt.dec.com [16.186.96.161]) by mail11.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.5/1.0/WV) with SMTP id GAA15956 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 06:17:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mofo.frt.dec.com by cssmuc.frt.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Nov95-0232PM) id AA22219; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 12:17:38 +0200 Received: from mofo.frt.dec.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mofo.frt.dec.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA06608 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 12:15:48 GMT Message-Id: <199709091215.MAA06608@mofo.frt.dec.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message from Arizona Coyote of Tue, 09 Sep 1997 09:01:56 +0900. Reply-To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: Xload Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 12:15:47 +0000 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Arizona Coyote writes: > 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 > just add yourself to the kmem group in /etc/group. --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) garyj@muc.de (play) gj@freebsd.org