Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!male!texsun!convex!connie!rdavis From: rdavis@connie.UUCP (Ray Davis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: How do you make your UNIX crash ??? Message-ID: Date: 26 Mar 91 13:14:46 GMT References: <690@tndsyd.oz.au> <1768@eru.mt.luth.se> <547@minya.UUCP> Organization: Convex Computer GmbH, Frankfurt, West Germany Lines: 16 In <547@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes: >One gotcha in the above: On some systems (Convex is one), ps must >be left setuid-root, because it checks its euid, and if it isn't a >super-user, it refuses to work. I found this the hard way, trying >to do the above, and had to put ps back as I found it. Sigh. We added a kmem group in ConvexOS 9.0 and have changed ps and related kmem reading commands: -rwxr-sr-x 1 root kmem 168819 Oct 24 18:04 ps ___ Ray Davis Convex Computer GmbH, Frankfurt, West Germany rdavis@convex.com, unido!connie!rdavis, uunet!convex!rdavis, +49-69-666-8081