Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 00:37:16 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, cvs-src@freebsd.org, John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/systat systat.1 src/usr.bin/vmstat vmstat.8 src/usr.sbin/iostat iostat.8 Message-ID: <20050527053716.GA1464@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <20050527024548.GP1201@green.homeunix.org> References: <200505261754.j4QHsGFG002792@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050526192502.GR959@funkthat.com> <20050526224648.GA865@gothmog.gr> <20050526234438.GS959@funkthat.com> <20050527002253.GA48929@gothmog.gr> <20050527024548.GP1201@green.homeunix.org>
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On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:45:48PM -0400 I heard the voice of Brian Fundakowski Feldman, and lo! it spake thus: > > Why is gstat root-only, anyway? Is the information it gives > supposed to be much more sensitive than that which iostat does? I > would prefer being able to run it not as root... gstat isn't root-only by itself; it reads /dev/devstat, which is default root:wheel 400. I've got devstat set to 440 in devfs.conf on my system, so I can run gstat as a wheel user. I think devstat opens up other capabilities, though, so you wouldn't want it open for untrusted users. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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