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From: Mark Allman <mallman@thoth.cs.ohiou.edu>
Subject: Re: NetBSD and NetConfig
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:06:22 GMT
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willey@purdue.edu (Mark Willey) writes:
>
> J Wunsch (j@ida.interface-business.de) wrote:
> : Mark Allman <mallman@thoth.cs.ohiou.edu> wrote:
> :
> : > # netconfig -k /netbsd.mallman8 _tcprexmtthresh 2
> : > /dev/kmem: Operation not permitted
> : >
> : > I am running as root, so I should be able to do this.
> :
> : Two things i could think of:
> :
> : . netconfig is setuid non-root, or
> :
> : . your system is running with raised securelevel, see init(8).
> :
> : I guess it's the latter.
>
> The man page looks like it's out of date. I think putting the
> following in the kernel config file may do it:
>
> options INSECURE # insecure; allow /dev/mem writing for X
Yes, it does. That is how I fixed the problem.
allman
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