anderson@SAPIR.COG.JHU.EDU (12/28/89)
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. At the time, I did what was indicated and forgot about it. Now I've rebuilt emacs (18.55 on a Sun 4/110, OS 4.0.1) without having saved everything I should have, and I can't recall how to fix loadst. My emacs proudly displays "load and time" in the modeline instead of displaying the load and the time. Can someone help me fix this? Thanks, Steve Anderson Cognitive Science Center The Johns Hopkins University anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu anderson@cs.jhu.edu anderson@csli.stanford.edu
tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (12/28/89)
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 -- (setq mail '("tale@cs.rpi.edu" "tale@ai.mit.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))