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From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
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Subject: Re: ps permission denied?
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> > 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? 

permissions on ps is: -r-xr-xr-x root   wheel

permissions on /dev/mem is: crw-r----- root    kmem