Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 15:18:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Benjamin Tomhave <tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu> To: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update: HELP! Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.92.960508151818.27699A-100000@martin.luther.edu> In-Reply-To: <199605081730.KAA00381@Root.COM>
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On Wed, 8 May 1996, David Greenman wrote:
> >Some more errors to report are....when trying to do 'w' from any account
> >other than root I get: /dev/mem: Permission denied. Ok. So, I changed
> >the permission on that file and then it says /dev/kmem: Permission denied.
> >Any ideas on that? Probably of lesser important. But, then I ask myself,
> >what are the permissions on most files in that directory??? I dunno if
> >they are right. Oh, btw, I have two files, /dev/rsd0.ctl and
> >/dev/rsd1.ctl. Each one is supposedly 536MB in size, yes I only have a
> >800MB hard drive. Hello?!? What's up with that???
>
> You sure are having some weird problems. Is /usr/bin/w setgid kmem? Is
> /dev/mem and /dev/kmem set to group kmem?
>
Yep...this is all ok...........???? *sigh*
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