scott@sage.uchicago.edu (Scott Deerwester) (03/07/91)
For some reason /usr/lib/emacs/etc/loadst only returns the date rather
than the date and load average, as advertised. This seems broken to
me. Is there another version out there somewhere that works?
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University of Chicago | Chicago, IL 60637 |pclark@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Peter Clark) (03/07/91)
>For some reason /usr/lib/emacs/etc/loadst only returns the date rather >than the date and load average, as advertised. This seems broken to >me. Is there another version out there somewhere that works? loadst tries to read the system load from the kernel file /vmunix. As you can see, 2.0 machines don't *have* a /vmunix file, but you can make one by making a a link from /odmach to /vmunix. loadst also needs to be set-uid to root to read the kernel file (or is it set-gid to kmem?) That last step might be a security hole; bet it will work. I'm sure someone more knowing will post the needed protections. Pete
eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (03/07/91)
In article <1991Mar6.193241.5779@src.honeywell.com> pclark@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Peter Clark) writes: > loadst also needs to be set-uid to root to >read the kernel file (or is it set-gid to kmem?) The latter. And while you're in that directory, you might as well restore spook.lines and yow.lines from the FSF distribution... -=EPS=-