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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!jmurray.campus.vt.edu!not-for-mail From: jmurray@vt.edu (John Murray) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem with xload Date: 4 Apr 1997 10:38:08 -0500 Organization: Personal Workstation Lines: 32 Message-ID: <5i3790$p4c$1@jmurray.campus.vt.edu> References: <5i2knr$b55$1@pinta.kolumbus.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: spg-as49s41.erols.com X-Received-On: 4 Apr 1997 10:37:58 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38483 In article <5i2knr$b55$1@pinta.kolumbus.fi>, Juhana Enqvist <juke@dna.fi> wrote: > >Since I compiled a new version of Xfree86 (using the makefile in ports >collection) xload has given me the following message: > >xload: can't open kvm files wØ¿ï > >(the characters after the word "files" change from time to time). > >But if I su as root in the same xterm, it works fine, so I suspect it's a >permission problem in a file somewhere. But what file? Any ideas? Well your on the rgiht it is a permission problem. I belive xload needs to SGID kmem ie it's permissilws should be: -rwxr-sr-x 1 root kmem 12288 Mar 21 00:01 /usr/X11R6/bin/xload So these commands should fix it: chown root.kmem /usr/X11R6/bin/xload chmod 2555 /usr/X11R6/bin/xload This should fix this, but this happened to me as well, it seems like the distribution has a problem. or is this a security "feature". Hope this helps. -- John Murray -=- jmurray@vt.edu johns@tmbg.org -=- http://acm.vt.edu/~jmurray The Unofficial Pritchard Home Page ->http://csugrad.cs.vt.edu/~murray/pritchard