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From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
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Subject: Re: recompiled ps exits with /dev/mem permission denied message
Date: 2 Jan 93 17:32:56
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In-reply-to: rich@Rice.edu's message of Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:16:55 GMT
>>>>> On Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:16:55 GMT, rich@Rice.edu (& Murphey) said:
>>>>> In article <fXiP7x7@quack.sac.ca.us>, dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox) writes:
David> I've noticed something strange. After putting in a Cyrix NDP, and
David> recompiling ps and libutil.a (installing the patch for ps), ps
David> dies when I'm not logged in as root with
David> ps: kvm_openfiles: can't open /dev/mem: permission denied
:-> you need to 'chgrp kmem /bin/ps' and 'chmod g+w /bin/ps' so that it is
^^^
Sorry to nit-pick but that should be g+s not g+w.
Brett.