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From: gangolli@wolvesden.Stanford.EDU (Anil R. Gangolli)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: load won't display in Gnu Emacs
Keywords: gnu, emacs, display-time
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Date: 20 Apr 89 21:07:33 GMT
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In article <24241@beta.lanl.gov> dd@beta.lanl.gov (Dan Davison) writes:
  >I tried this once before and didn't get an answer, so here goes again.
  >
  >We have Gnu 18.53 under SOS (Sun OS) 4.0.1.  When users invoke
  >display-time, the modeline says "time and load" briefly, then displays
  >only the time.  If the superuser runs Gnu it *does* display the time
  >and load.
  >
  >What's wrong?  Is there something obvious I've missed?


In the emacs etc library, the program loadst that gets the 
load info for display-time needs to have access to kernel
memory (/dev/kmem).  To give it this access:
	1) become superuser
	2) use chgrp to put loadst 
	   in the group kmem (this should be the group to which the file
	   /dev/kmem belongs).
	3) Then do "chmod g+s loadst".  This says,
	   when loadst runs, it will run with the access priveleges of
	   its group, which you've just set to be kmem.

Now things should work for non-superusers too.
--anil.