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From: shirono@hcx3.SSD.HARRIS.COM
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: load won't display in Gnu Emacs
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Date: 21 Apr 89 13:16:00 GMT
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**>  comp.emacs  dd@beta.lanl.gov  Apr 20, 1989  <**
> 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.

The clue is your last sentence.  display-time runs $EMACS/etc/loadst as a
sub-process to obtain the "time and load" information.  loadst, in turn,
reads /dev/kmem to obtain the load average.  As always, root has access,
but it seems nobody else has.  This is likely to be due to loadst not
having the right permissions.  In most cases, all that is needed is that
loadst be setgid kmem.

--Roberto
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