From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 1 11:01:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA29254 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 11:01:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ds9.abac.com (qmailr@ds9.abac.com [206.171.121.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA29247 for ; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 11:01:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6537 invoked by uid 501); 1 Jun 1997 18:00:58 -0000 Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 11:00:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall To: Wolfgang Helbig cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote X programs In-Reply-To: <199706011210.OAA01235@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Wolfgang Helbig wrote: > This could be a permission problem. Does this happen when you start > xload as root? Nope, works fine as root. > On my system xload is owned by root and the set-user-id flag is > turned on. > It's better to put it in group `kmem' (chgrp /usr/X11R6/bin/xload kmem) > and turn on the set-group-id flag (chmod g+s /usr/X11R6/bin/xload). That worked perfectly. Thanks! On my system, xload didn't have the suid or sgid bit on. I changed its group to kmem and set the gid bit on, which worked great. ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * IRC: Data * Email: data@dal.net * * WWW: http://voyager.abac.com/data * IRC Admin, voyager.dal.net * * --== Try DALnet! Server irc.dal.net, port 7000 ==-- * * "Stop smirking, Number 1." -- J.L. Picard * * "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop!" -- EMH Program, ST:FC * **********************************************************************