Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!src.honeywell.com!tasha!pclark From: pclark@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Peter Clark) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Emacs display-time Message-ID: <1991Mar6.193241.5779@src.honeywell.com> Date: 6 Mar 91 19:32:41 GMT References: <1516@cgh.UUCP> Sender: news@src.honeywell.com (News interface) Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center Lines: 13 In-Reply-To: scott@sage.uchicago.edu's message of 6 Mar 91 16:32:29 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: tasha.src.honeywell.com >For some reason /usr/lib/emacs/etc/loadst only returns the date rather >than the date and load average, as advertised. This seems broken to >me. Is there another version out there somewhere that works? loadst tries to read the system load from the kernel file /vmunix. As you can see, 2.0 machines don't *have* a /vmunix file, but you can make one by making a a link from /odmach to /vmunix. loadst also needs to be set-uid to root to read the kernel file (or is it set-gid to kmem?) That last step might be a security hole; bet it will work. I'm sure someone more knowing will post the needed protections. Pete