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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5841 ; Fri, 01 Jan 93 01:57:42 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!tfs.com!tfs.com!ts2!shipley From: shipley@peyote.dis.org (Pete Shipley) Subject: Re: recompiled ps exits with /dev/mem permission denied message In-Reply-To: cgd@stinson.CS.Berkeley.EDU's message of 31 Dec 92 00: 01:33 Message-ID: <SHIPLEY.93Jan2004918@peyote.dis.org> Sender: news@tfs.com (News Administrator @ts2.tfs.com) Nntp-Posting-Host: peyote Organization: Processed People for a Processed America References: <fXiP7x7@quack.sac.ca.us> <RICH.92Dec30221655@superego.Rice.edu> <CGD.92Dec31000133@stinson.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 08:49:18 GMT Lines: 31 >From: cgd@stinson.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) >Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd >Date: 31 Dec 92 00:01:33 >Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us > > umm, that should be > > chmod g+s /bin/ps > > 8-) > > i'm surprised that 'make install' did not do it properly... > > perhaps the original poster didn't do 'make install'? ps(1) should be setgid to group kmem and /dev/mem and /dev/kmem should be owned root.kmem and mode 0640 (rw-r-----). -- --------------- Pete Shipley: email: shipley@berkeley.edu Flames: cimarron@postgres.berkeley.edu Spelling corections: /dev/null Quote: "Anger is an energy"