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From: mgove@netcom.com (Matthew E. Gove)
Subject: Re: Interesting XF86-3.1 problem.
Message-ID: <mgoveCxG4Gr.JM0@netcom.com>
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References: <mgoveCxC5p2.4H5@netcom.com> <378ga6$bhb@darum.uni-mannheim.de>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 07:22:02 GMT
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In article <378ga6$bhb@darum.uni-mannheim.de> andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de (Andrew Wheadon) writes:
>In article <mgoveCxC5p2.4H5@netcom.com>,
>Matthew E. Gove <mgove@netcom.com> wrote:
>>interesting part. If you are 'root', it works fine. xload perms are:
>>-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     kmem        12288 Sep 28 10:08 /usr/X11R6/bin/xload
>
>xload perms should be rwxr-sr-x because it's the group kmem that
>is needed for getting the load right.
>Cheerio
>

	Thats a detail I didn't mention.. I tried that. I tried all 
combinations of suid/gid.. /dev/kmem perms are set right too.. 

>-- 
>The cost of living hasn't affected it's popularity. (unknown)
>current	release=doc host=wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de \ "NetBSD-current mirror"
>hostbase=/mit/ftp/pub/NetBSD base=/usr prefix=/usr backup delete use-rel-suffix


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Matthew E. Gove                                                mgove@netcom.com
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