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- From: rich@Rice.edu (& Murphey)
- Subject: Re: recompiled ps exits with /dev/mem permission denied message
- In-Reply-To: dfox@quack.sac.ca.us's message of 30 Dec 1992 21:03:57 UTC
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- Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice
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- References: <fXiP7x7@quack.sac.ca.us>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:16:55 GMT
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- >>>>> In article <fXiP7x7@quack.sac.ca.us>, dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox) writes:
- David> I've noticed something strange. After putting in a Cyrix NDP, and
- David> recompiling ps and libutil.a (installing the patch for ps), ps
- David> dies when I'm not logged in as root with
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- David> ps: kvm_openfiles: can't open /dev/mem: permission denied
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- you need to 'chgrp kmem /bin/ps' and 'chmod g+w /bin/ps' so that it is
- set-group id on execution:
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- -r-xr-sr-x 1 bin kmem 77824 Dec 16 15:52 /bin/ps*
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- Rich
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