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From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
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Subject: Re: xload in 2.2-ALPHA
To: jbrann@brann.org (John Brann)
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 07:25:01 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199612030020.TAA02952@freebie.brann.org> from John Brann at "Dec 2, 96 07:20:58 pm"
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In a previous message, John Brann said:
> Hi,
> 
> Trying to run xload in 2.2-ALPHA gives me the following:
> 
> xload: can't open kvm files  Ù¿ï
> 
> unless I run it as root, in which case it works.  I'm guessing that there
> is a permissions issue on something in /dev, but I don't know what it
> could be.  I don't want to make xload suid...
> 
> John

add yourself to the kmem group. 


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