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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5764 ; Fri, 01 Jan 93 01:55:06 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!pacbell.com!UB.com!quack!dfox From: dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox) Subject: recompiled ps exits with /dev/mem permission denied message Message-ID: <fXiP7x7@quack.sac.ca.us> Keywords: ps, permissions, /dev/mem Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'. Date: 30 Dec 1992 21:03:57 UTC Lines: 23 Hi *. I've noticed something strange. After putting in a Cyrix NDP, and recompiling ps and libutil.a (installing the patch for ps), ps dies when I'm not logged in as root with ps: kvm_openfiles: can't open /dev/mem: permission denied The permissions on ps are: -rwxr-xr-x ps And the permissions on /dev/mem: crw-r---- I haven't changed permissions on /dev/mem, and ps has worked in the past for non-root users. Also, why is it that when I issue ps -aux, the RSS is always 0? -- David Fox dfox@quack.sac.ca.us