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From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: xload
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Rick Knebel said:
>Hi,
>I am new to bsd and hope I have a simple question.
>When I try to use xload as a regular user I get an error message that says
>permission denied to a km file of some sort.
>When I use it as root it is no problem.
>Any suggestions
>Thanks Alot

Someone is going to (I just know it) tell me this is evil, but I just made
the xload binary setgid kmem.  Something like

# chgrp kmem xload
# chmod g+s xload

ought to do the trick.  I'm sure there are better fixes than this.

HTH,

	Scott

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