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From: kayvan@mrspoc.transact.com (Kayvan Sylvan)
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Subject: loadst weirdness ??
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Date: 9 Jul 89 18:03:49 GMT
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loadst has to read /dev/kmem, which is often in a priviledged group (kmem
on most BSD type systems and sysinfo on some System V and Xenix systems).

Try making loadst a setgid program in the proper group and that should take
care of your problem.

			---Kayvan

Kayvan Sylvan @ Transact Software, Inc. -*-  Mountain View, CA (415) 961-6112
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