From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 13 18:41:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA23883 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 18:41:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA23877 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 18:41:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id SAA05587 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 18:40:43 -0700 Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id CAA07088; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 02:38:14 +0100 (BST) To: Mark Stout cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: netstat: kvm_open: cannot read IdlePTD In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 Jun 1996 18:20:23 PDT." <199606140120.SAA01164@vpm.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 02:38:13 +0100 Message-ID: <7086.834716293@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mark Stout wrote in message ID <199606140120.SAA01164@vpm.com>: > The subject says it all. I've looked and can't find the meaning of > this error. I assume it's a permissions problem. The trouble is > the command is run as root. Did you strip the kernel image? Do the devices /dev/mem and /dev/kmem exist? They should be something like: crw-r----- 1 root kmem - 2, 0 Mar 28 23:40 /dev/mem crw-r----- 1 root kmem - 2, 1 Mar 28 23:40 /dev/kmem When something stops working like this, you have to ask yourself what you did between now and when it last worked. This is why a lot of people with large scale admin setups keep logs of things they do as root (or whatever acct they use for doing system administration) so that if something breaks, they can see what they've done recently. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info