On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 11:37:02AM +0200, Predrag Zecevic - Unix Systems Administrator wrote: > > This is pretty annoying: Xorg fills in syslog with messages like: > > [2020-10-23 10:15:03] solarix genunix: [ID 864859 kern.notice] NOTICE: > Xorg[1075]: missing privilege "sys_devices" (euid = 2903, syscall = 54) > needed at drv_priv+0x1d#012
I don't get those messages, either in /var/adm/messages or /var/log/syslog . What are you doing that I'm not? > euid is my UID: > :; id > uid=2903(predrag_zecevic) gid=1961(admin) groups=1961(admin),1962(vboxuser) The parent process of Xorg is lightdm . It runs as root, but Xorg runs as the console user. That will be you. You may need to grant yourself more privileges. > For today only: > > :; grep -E "2020-10-23.*Xorg.*missing privilege" /var/adm/messages | awk > '{printf("%s\n", $12)}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn > 75750 "sys_devices" > 173 "file_dac_search" > 4 "proc_owner" > 2 "file_dac_read" > > What has to be added to /etc/security/exec_attr.d/SOME_FILE to prevent this? It's possible that nobody on this mailing list understands illumos privileges. Maybe try an illumos mailing list. -- -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss