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From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au>
To: Wouter de Boer <wouter.de.boer@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Xload
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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


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Adrian Chadd			| UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows ...
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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
> 
> 
>