Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 23:44:12 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> To: Wouter de Boer <wouter.de.boer@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xload Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970408234206.812A-100000@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> In-Reply-To: <334A5AB9.41C67EA6@pobox.com>
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Do this : chown root.kmem /usr/X11R6/bin/xload chmod 2755 /usr/X11/bin/xload Its trying to read the kernel memory to grab loadav's (Weirdness?) but its installed as a normal user. This runs set group id (setgid) to kmem so it can read the data. Cya -- Adrian Chadd | UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows ... <adrian@psinet.net.au> | (also known as the Good, the bad and the | ugly..) On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Wouter de Boer wrote: > Hello, > > When I login as wouter and I try to start xload in X-windows I see the > next error message: > > xload: can't open kvm files @Ù¿ï > > can anybody tell me where to find the kvm files ?? When I login as root > no problem. xload still works. > > Can anybody help me ?? > > I work with FreeBSD releas 2.1.7 and X-windows > > Thanks, > > Wouter > > >
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