[mythtv-users] swap not displaying
Endaf Jones
jonese at zener.com
Thu Jun 16 18:00:19 UTC 2005
Me thinks it's something that has changed in recent CVS. I have the
same problem and the permissions are all world readable for /proc/swap.
# Endaf
Dan Wilga wrote:
>> On 6/10/05, Dan Wilga <dwilga at mtholyoke.edu> 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.
>
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