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From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: loadst
Message-ID: <0YC`F|@rpi.edu>
Date: 27 Dec 89 19:22:23 GMT
References: <8912271900.AA05564@sapir.COG.JHU.EDU>
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In <8912271900.AA05564@sapir.COG.JHU.EDU> anderson@SAPIR.COG.JHU.EDU writes:
> A while ago there was some discussion about how to make loadst behave
> correctly. Something about the way the permissions are set, as I
> recall.

loadst should be in your exec-path somewhere (typically PATH from your
environment plus the Emacs etc/ directory) and be able to read
/dev/kmem in order to display load and disk information.  The latter
is usually accomplished by putting loadst in the same group as
/dev/kmem, making the executable setgid and making /dev/kmem readable
by the group.

turing:tale (22) ls -lg etc/loadst /dev/kmem
crw-r-----  1 root     kmem       3,   1 Aug  3  1988 /dev/kmem
-rwxr-sr-x  1 src      kmem        24576 Oct 24  1988 etc/loadst

Dave
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