On 6/16/05, Dan Wilga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 6/10/05, Dan Wilga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> At 6:34 PM -0500 6/9/05, Matt wrote: > >> >Running CVS, when I go into the system status, when I try to view the > >> >Swap it shows "Unknown". It used to work just fine until I upgraded > >> >to latest CVS recently. Any ideas? > >> > >> Swap shows just fine for me, as of a CVS version from about a week > >> ago. Perhaps when you upgraded the setuid bit was lost, and the user > >> you're running mythfrontend as can get to /proc ? > >> -- > > > >So how could I fix that? > > First: > > ls -ld /proc > > If you see something like: > > dr-xr-x--- 219 root system 0 May 31 09:37 /proc > > then the mode "dr-xr-x---" means that only root and people in the > group called "system" can read /proc. One way around this would be to > add whatever user you run mythfrontend as to the system group. (pico > /etc/group) > > Another way would be to use setuid on mythfrontend. Have a look at > Jarod's guide. I'm sure it's in there somewhere. > > If the mode on the directory is already "dr-xr-xr-x", then this > probably isn't your problem. > > -- > Dan Wilga [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web Administrator http://www.mtholyoke.edu > Mount Holyoke College Tel: 413-538-3027 > South Hadley, MA 01075 "Who left the cake out in the rain?" >
concord:~# ls -ld /proc dr-xr-xr-x 149 root root 0 2005-06-16 18:12 /proc _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
