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- From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: recompiled ps exits with /dev/mem permission denied message
- Date: 2 Jan 93 17:32:56
- Organization: /usr/blymn/.organization
- Lines: 15
- Message-ID: <BLYMN.93Jan2173256@siren.awadi.com.au>
- References: <fXiP7x7@quack.sac.ca.us> <RICH.92Dec30221655@superego.Rice.edu>
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- In-reply-to: rich@Rice.edu's message of Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:16:55 GMT
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- >>>>> On Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:16:55 GMT, rich@Rice.edu (& Murphey) said:
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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
- ^^^
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- Sorry to nit-pick but that should be g+s not g+w.
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- Brett.
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