Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 21:53:50 -0700 (MST) From: Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net> To: michles@haven.ios.com (Emil Mikhles) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with top. Message-ID: <199601080453.VAA13138@terra.aros.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD.3.91.960107210830.11412A-100000@haven.ios.com> from "Emil Mikhles" at Jan 7, 96 09:09:36 pm
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Lo and behold, Emil Mikhles once said:
> For some reason, just now, when I execute top, when I am not root I get
> thiserror message "kvm_open: /dev/mem: Permission denied", any ideas on
> how to solve this problem?
> thanx
Is top setgid to group kmem? It needs to be. Also make sure your
/dev/kmem is readable by group kmem (but _not_ by world. :-)
-Dave Andersen
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