Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 11:00:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall <data@ds9.abac.com> To: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote X programs Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970601105918.6228I-100000@ds9.abac.com> In-Reply-To: <199706011210.OAA01235@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
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On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Wolfgang Helbig wrote: > This could be a permission problem. Does this happen when you start > xload as root? Nope, works fine as root. > On my system xload is owned by root and the set-user-id flag is > turned on. > It's better to put it in group `kmem' (chgrp /usr/X11R6/bin/xload kmem) > and turn on the set-group-id flag (chmod g+s /usr/X11R6/bin/xload). That worked perfectly. Thanks! On my system, xload didn't have the suid or sgid bit on. I changed its group to kmem and set the gid bit on, which worked great. ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * IRC: Data * Email: data@dal.net * * WWW: http://voyager.abac.com/data * IRC Admin, voyager.dal.net * * --== Try DALnet! Server irc.dal.net, port 7000 ==-- * * "Stop smirking, Number 1." -- J.L. Picard * * "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop!" -- EMH Program, ST:FC * **********************************************************************
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