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From: webber@csd.uwo.ca (Robert E. Webber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MacMINIX: /dev/lp, ps fixes
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Date: 18 Nov 90 09:27:34 GMT
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In article <700@pdxgate.UUCP> deo@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Steven Furber) writes:
>I have also applied the various fixes that Pickert has put up on this newsgroup
>and recompiled everything with only a few warnings about incompatible pointer
>types.  Once recompiled and rebooted with the NEWboot, ps still will not work.
>The problem is that it cannot read /dev/kmem (error: 0) for the proc table.
>
>Ideas?

chmod'ing ps to 4755 was the only thing I had to do other than following
Pickert's patches.  I installed the patches by hand rather than thru
patch.  

Turns out that it is necessary for the test directory to be publically
writable in order for some of the test routines to work.  In the shell
test routines, one of the tests done is on patch.  It didn't work until
I chmem'd patch.  Patch would claim not to be able to install patch through
one strategy and then would apparently quit while trying other strategy.
Examining the files afterword, some of the patch worked and some didn't.
If you have been installing the patches using the patch program, it might
be worthwhile taking a look at the resulting files just to be sure.

--- BOB (webber@csd.uwo.ca)