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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!selway.umt.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Interesting XF86-3.1 problem. Date: 9 Oct 1994 19:15:17 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 22 Message-ID: <379fg5$22i@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <mgoveCxC5p2.4H5@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <mgoveCxC5p2.4H5@netcom.com>, Matthew E. Gove <mgove@netcom.com> wrote: > > I've encountered an interesting bug/feature of XFree86-3.1 on >FreeBSD-1.1.5.1. If you run xload as a normal user, it dies with the >error 'xload: couldn't obtain load average X?oeXS'. Now, here's the really >interesting part. If you are 'root', it works fine. xload perms are: >-rwsr-xr-x 1 root kmem 12288 Sep 28 10:08 /usr/X11R6/bin/xload > >I'm stumped on this one... Check the permissions on /dev/mem and friends. It is also possible that the xload in 3.1 doesn't do setuid/seteuid stuff handling correctly for FreeBSD. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.