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From: ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu (Larry Granroth)
Subject: /dev/drum kmem mem in group kmem
Message-ID: <CCy4Ep.LvC@space.physics.uiowa.edu>
Summary: drum kmem and mem in wrong group
Keywords: NetBSD-0.9 bug
Organization: The University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy
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Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 18:51:57 GMT
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[NetBSD-0.9]
In order to get ps (setgid kmem) to be able to read /dev/drum /dev/kmem
and /dev/mem, I had to chgrp kmem those files.  (I assume they should
have been in group kmem, since that's the way they are on my SPARCstation.)

larry-granroth@uiowa.edu