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From: golon@inxpress.net (Brian E. Golon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: ps permissions
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 96 17:55:00 GMT
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When I try to use ps from a non-superuser account i get :

ps: /dev/mem: Permission denied


/dev/mem has the following properties:

crw-r-----  1 root  kmem   2,0,0 Jan 23  1996 /dev/mem


Any suggestions as to why a normal user cannot use ps?

TIA,

Brian.