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Re: xterm, xload, and X libraries in non-standard locations

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From: Ronald G Minnich
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 1990 20:11
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In article <ZS-##4=@rpi.edu> tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
>In <9003061606.AA17990@nswc-wo.arpa> cwarsaw@NSWC-WO.ARPA (Warsaw):
>> According to the ERRATA, xterm and xload must be linked statically.
>Only if you make them setuid to root.  You don't have to do that at
>all with xload to get full functionality and you (well, I) can live
no, if you make them sgid kmem it fails too.
How do you get full functionality out of xload if you
can't read kmem? Or do you make kmem world-readable? 
I don't get it.
ron
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Subject: Re: xterm, xload, and X libraries in non-standard locations
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