From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 8 13:15:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA18759 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 May 1996 13:15:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from martin.luther.edu (martin.luther.edu [192.203.196.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA18741 for ; Wed, 8 May 1996 13:15:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by martin.luther.edu with SMTP (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA27746; Wed, 8 May 96 15:18:44 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 15:18:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Benjamin Tomhave To: David Greenman Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update: HELP! In-Reply-To: <199605081730.KAA00381@Root.COM> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Benjamin Tomhave | Shell to DOS...Come in DOS...Do you Copy? Luther College | Decorah, IA 52101 | $ rm * .* "Hey, where'd everything go? tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------