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From: ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu (Larry Granroth)
Subject: Re: xload
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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