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Subject: Re: X11 ate my AUX partitions!
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Date: 23 Oct 90 16:33:42 GMT
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In article <1990Oct23.142923.8392@athena.mit.edu>, dmac@athena.mit.edu
(David McCormick) writes:
|> I get "can't load /dev/kmem" and Xload 
|> won't work.

xload needs "set group id 'sys'" permissions, e.g.:

	-rwxr-sr-x   1 bin      sys       256068 Oct 10 12:54
/usr/bin/X11/xload

You don't mention where you obtained your X distribution. Apple's
product xload client ships with the proper permissions, have you built
your own xload?

|> X11 ate my AUX partitions!

Doubtful, not in the protocol ... :-)
--
Steve Peters
X Project Leader
Apple Computer, Inc.
peters@apple.apple.com