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From: rick@crash.cts.com (Rick Stout)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: SCO UNIX 3.2 Failure: df Command
Keywords: help!
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Date: 12 Aug 90 16:38:58 GMT
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In article <135@happym.wa.com> irv@happym.wa.com (Irving Wolfe) writes:
>When I type "df" on my Motorola system, I get:
>/u/spool/news(/dev/dsk/m320_1s2):    22142 blocks   10694 i-nodes
>/u        (/dev/dsk/m320_1s1):    23572 blocks   11897 i-nodes
>/usr/spool/uucp(/dev/dsk/m320_1s0):    22034 blocks    5975 i-nodes
>/usr      (/dev/dsk/m320_0s1):    13384 blocks    7191 i-nodes
>/         (/dev/dsk/m320_0s0):     3132 blocks    2067 i-nodes
>
>When I type "df" on my SCO system, I get:
>df: no authorization to query disk space.
>
This bit me too.  The solution in my case was really simple
and annoying.

check the ownership, group, and mode of /bin/df.
it should be:
---x--s--x     owner:bin  group:backup

In my case all was correct except group was 'other' or something.
Upon changing to backup, it worked fine.

-Rick
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Rick Stout                                                ...uunet!eysd!rick
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