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From: ecphssrw@robin.csun.edu (Stephen Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: load won't display in Gnu Emacs
Keywords: gnu, emacs, display-time
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Date: 28 Apr 89 22:36:21 GMT
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In-reply-to: dd@beta.lanl.gov (Dan Davison)

The difficulty with display-time is that it shows the output of the
program $emacs/etc/loadst, which reads /dev/kmem.  Under 4.2+ BSD and
similar Sun/OS releases, /dev/kmem became mode 640, owned by user root
and group kmem, as a security feature.  So, loadst must either be
changed to not read /dev/kmem, or (as we've done here) installed as
setgid kmem.
--
Stephen Walton, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Univ. Northridge
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