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Date:      Wed, 08 May 1996 10:30:12 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Benjamin Tomhave <tomhavbe@martin.luther.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Update: HELP! 
Message-ID:  <199605081730.KAA00381@Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 May 1996 11:03:14 CDT." <Pine.HPP.3.92.960508105006.25631G-100000@martin.luther.edu> 

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>Some more errors to report are....when trying to do 'w' from any account
>other than root I get: /dev/mem: Permission denied.  Ok.  So, I changed
>the permission on that file and then it says /dev/kmem: Permission denied.
>Any ideas on that?  Probably of lesser important.  But, then I ask myself,
>what are the permissions on most files in that directory???  I dunno if
>they are right.  Oh, btw, I have two files, /dev/rsd0.ctl and
>/dev/rsd1.ctl.  Each one is supposedly 536MB in size, yes I only have a
>800MB hard drive.  Hello?!?  What's up with that???

   You sure are having some weird problems. Is /usr/bin/w setgid kmem? Is
/dev/mem and /dev/kmem set to group kmem?

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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