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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!jobone!lynx.unm.edu!jemez.eece.unm.edu!ahvezda From: ahvezda@jemez.eece.unm.edu (Ales Vaclav Hvezda) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: xload and access to load average Date: 2 Nov 1994 05:05:26 GMT Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3976mm$i8i@lynx.unm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: jemez.eece.unm.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hello All, I just finished installing FreeBSD and it works great! Except for xload, which only works when I'm root.. when I try to run it as a regular user I get: xload: couldn't obtain load average (There are some binary chars printed after that) The file, xload, has the following permissions: -rwsr-xr-x 1 bin kmem 12288 Sep 28 08:07 /usr/X11R6/bin/xload (It's sticky alright, and I have tried various other permission combinations) but it still won't work.. Anybody have any ideas on this? Where does xlaod get its information? Things like uptime work just fine (and they are sticky). Thanks a bunch for any info! -Ales (Running 1.1.51 and XFree86 3.1) (if this question is a faq, just lemme know.. and I'll go hunt it down) -- v v Ales Hvezda ahvezda@eece.unm.edu