From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 7 20:54:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA12439 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 20:54:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from terra.aros.net ([205.164.111.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA12432 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 20:54:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from angio@localhost) by terra.aros.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA13138; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 21:53:51 -0700 From: Dave Andersen Message-Id: <199601080453.VAA13138@terra.aros.net> Subject: Re: Problems with top. To: michles@haven.ios.com (Emil Mikhles) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 21:53:50 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Emil Mikhles" at Jan 7, 96 09:09:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual/ "She totally confused all the passing piranhas"