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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
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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.


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