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Date:      Wed, 12 Mar 1997 13:41:40 -0800 (PST)
From:      Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To:        Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /usr/bin/w?
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.970312134112.29426A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970312114538.10926B-100000@luke.cpl.net>

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On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Shawn Ramsey wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Shawn Ramsey wrote:
> 
> > /usr/bin/w is being erratic on my system.. most times at root it works.
> > Sometimes not. If I run it not as root, I get the following error:
> > 
> > /usr/bin/w: Permission denied
> > 
> > it has the following flags/permissions:
> > 
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin         16384 Mar  5 17:02 w
> > 
> > 
> > What should I do?
> > 
> > Thanks....
> 
> Opps. Why did I include w, and not mem? :)
> 
> crw-r-----   1 root     kmem       2,   0 Feb 14 01:55 mem
> 
> There is mem... 
> 

narcissus:{/home/ben}% ls -l `which w`
-r-xr-sr-x  2 bin  kmem  16384 Jul 16  1996 /usr/bin/w


 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."




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