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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!ljg From: ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu (Larry Granroth) Subject: Re: xload Message-ID: <CMry75.65t@space.physics.uiowa.edu> Sender: news@space.physics.uiowa.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: ljgpc.physics.uiowa.edu Organization: The University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <1994Mar15.025212.14829@sun490.fdu.edu> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 20:28:15 GMT Lines: 15 Brian Domenick (brian@sun490.fdu.edu) wrote: : I am running the march 5 NetBSD current binary distribution on my 486 pc. Xload : from xFree86 has now stopped working. Does anyone know why, or how to correct the : problem ? I get xload: cannot open /dev/kmem. (In addition to the possible need to rebuild mentioned in other followups . . .) You might also check that the executable for xload has the setgid bit on and has group kmem: % ls -lg /dev/kmem `which xload` crw-r----- 1 root kmem 2, 1 Jul 21 1993 /dev/kmem -rwxr-sr-x 1 root kmem 536576 Oct 25 22:20 /usr/X386/bin/xload larry-granroth@uiowa.edu