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From: Stranger Bone <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
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Subject: Re: ps permission denied?
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On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, Shawn Ramsey wrote:

> Anyone know why a simple 'ps' now says /dev/mem: permission denied? Is
> this normal? It used to allow any user to do a ps, ps ax, ect.

Did you upgrade your kernel?  What are the perms on /dev/mem?  How about 
on ps? 



 Ben

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